The far-right bastards of syriza go smoothly hand in hand with ND (nea dimokratia, right-wing party in power before syriza’s election), anthimos (the metropolit, church’s highest officer in Thessaloniki) and all the rest pile of shit, consisting the long arm of repression. Some time later comrades have clashed with the cops in front of the entrance of syriza’s office in Thessaloniki and occupied it. The refugees and immigrants are transferred to detention centers and the solidaries were dragged into police detention buildings and courts. The procedure of the demolition of Orfanotrofio has already started, while people who were in the building and were in need of medication were not allowed to take it. 83 people were detained and there is information about over 75 arrests with the accusation of “civil peace disturbance”. Since this morning (27/07) the cops have invaded 3 housing squats, which host refugees and immigrants, these are orfanotrofio, the one on Nikis boulvrd. Hours later, No Border Kitchen, an autonomous structure providing food to refugees in the island of Lesvos, was also forcefully evicted by the police. Under the rubble were buried tons of clothes, foodstuffs and medicine collected there by grassroots solidarity structures to be distributed to refugee families in need. Immediately after Orfanotrofeio was evacuated, bulldozers marched in and demolished the building, an abandoned orphanage “donated” five years ago to the enterprising Greek Orthodox Church by a previous government. The rest of the occupants, 74 people of more than a dozen different nationalities, were taken into police custody. Most occupants with refugee status were released, while some were transported to military-run refugee reception centers. In a well-orchestrated police operation, hundreds of people were detained. In the early morning of July 27, refugee families and supporters who were sleeping at Thessaloniki’s three occupied refugee shelters - Nikis, Orfanotrofeio and Hurriya - were woken up by police in riot gear. The eviction of three occupied refugee shelters in Thessaloniki marks another episode in the Greek government’s war on grassroots solidarity efforts. If when they made it to the border, they were often pushed back to Athens, where many of them fell into the hands of smugglers and even organ harvesting mafias. Those of us who had been visiting Idomeni frequently during the summer of 2015 had seen a wall being built in front of our eyes, people practically living in the mud, being beaten up by the police, giving birth in offhand tents, burning anything they could find from the ruble for some heat in the freezing cold, being moved around from town to town and from camp to camp, in buses that would just show up and then disappear, being constantly stopped for pointless checks in the middle of nowhere on their way to the border. They were moved to isolated camps throughout the country, under the surveillance of the army and the NGOs.
Within a months they were also displaced from Idomeni, an massive self-made and to a great extent self-managed settlement near the border with the Rep of Macedonia.
Thousands of migrants have been declared illegal overnight and are stuck on Greek territory. The story begins with the squatting of the Orfanotrofeio in December 2015.
Thessa revenge trial#
One commerade faces repressions now for the squating alone, standing at court for all of us, on the trial on the. Last summer the Squat Orfanotrofio in Thessaloniki was evicted and demolished by the Greek government.
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