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Greece: Alexis is gone for two years
nn - 06.12.2010 13:46
Alexis is gone for two years: he’s gone to a university occupation in London, standing behind a barricade in Rome, protesting in the streets of Dublin…
Alexis Grigoropoulos. Killed by cop on 06.12.2008
Words, for the largest part, fail us.
Alexis has been gone for two long years.
There is little to be said, much to watch in awe.
Alexis lives.
He stays over in university occupations in the UK.
He street-fights the education cuts in Italy.
He protests against austerity in the freezing cold streets of Dublin.
Tomorrow, Alexis is back in the streets of Athens.
We’ll all be back there. For those days, for the days that followed, for the
days and the revolts yet to come.
These days are Alexis’ days, these days are ours.
 Website: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/
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| Read more about: europa vrijheid, repressie & mensenrechten wereldcrisis | | supplements | | Demonstraties ter herinnering... | AGN - 06.12.2010 18:44
Vandaag 6 december zijn er in verschillende Griekse steden grote demonstraties in verband met de moord 2 jaar geleden op Alexis. Duizenden mensen zijn de straten op gegaan. Het is hierbij tot confrontaties gekomen tussen demonstranten en de politie.
Hieronder een korte tijdslijn van Occupied London (bron:  http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/12/06/435-demonstrations-and-actions-in-17-greek-cities-mark-two-year-anniversary-of-the-state-assassination-of-alexandros-grigoropoulos-police-announce-unprecedented-traffic-ban-in-central-athens/)
-18:00 (GMT+2) According to information from Athens Indymedia many thousands of people in the streets of Athens at the moment. Police sourounded several blocks and attacked to the demonstration a number of times, notably a harsh attack against the block of the Athens Law School students’ took place, now several demonstrators are in the building of the Law School. There were some clashes in front of the parliament it seems that molotov cocktails were thrown to the police lines in front of there.
-16:20 (GMT+2) The demonstration in Athens have been effectivelly banned. charging at the first people who gathered at the Univerity’s Propylaia police have now pushed a large demo block. Hundrends of people keep now gathering, effectivelly behind the police lines.
-15:55 (GMT+2) Main demo has not even started but clashes with the police have. Riot police have souroundedthe university of Athens where the pre-demo gathering takes place.
- 13:45 (GMT+2) The joint student/teacher demonstration in Athens just ended. In the spirit of December, students pelted the police with oranges. We are waiting for the main evening demonstration to start.
Earlier high school students’ demonstrations took place in various parts of Athens and outside the capital, in the Athens’ suburb of Aigaleo was reported that a few hundrend students marched in the local police department where were tehy clashed with police.
Today, 6.12.2010, marks two years from the date of the assassination of 15-year old Alexis Grigoropoulos by special police forces in the Exarcheia district of Athens.
This post will be carrying continuous updates from demonstrations and actions organised in Athens and Thessaloniki and a summary of the events nationwide. There are demonstrations called in at least 17 Greek cities.
On Sunday night, police presence in Exarcheia was very high (even higher than usual) and at least four people were reported to have been detained by police.
Called demonstrations:
- Athens: student demonstration at 11am, main demonstration at 4pm, gathering at the point of Alexis’ assassination at 9pm.
- Thessaloniki: student demo at noon, main demo at 3pm.
On the eve of December 6th, the police announced an unprecedented 21-hour traffic ban in central Athens: no vehicles whatsoever are permitted to park or drive through the roads marked in the map below; these effectively include the entire city centre:
Website: http://www.anarchistischegroepnijmegen.nl
| | update | agb - 06.12.2010 21:52
Monday, December 6, 2010
-21:28 (GMT+2) Very violent attack by the cops against the commemoration gathering on the spot where Alexis was assasniated. Cops pushed people away from that place and it seems that they broke the little marble monument which was erected there to commemorate the teenager’s murder. People now are marching towards the Polytechnic School while cops throw gas bombs. In George st. hooded neonazis are operating together with riot police.
-21:03 (GMT+2) The announced gathering in Mesologeiou st. just started, thousands of people are already there while more are coming, nevertheless, the atmosphere is very heavy due to the gas bombs which were thrown before by the cops.
-20:05 (GMT +2) People have been concentrating all evening in the spot where Alexis Grigoropoulos was shot in 2008 in Exarcheia area. At the moment barricades and clashes with riot police in various streets of Exarcheia, but as it seems in other parts of Athens’ centre are taking place. According to athens-indymedia a few minutes ago cops threw gaz bombs and sound grenades to people concentrated in Mesologeiou st. exactly where Alexis was shot two years ago.
At 21:00 a commemoration gathering will take place there.
-Police has attacked to the demonstrations in other cities such as Giannena, Agrinio and Volos, but demonstrators defended the protests, yet several people (many high school students as it seems) have been detained or arrested.
-Demonstrations took or/and are taking place in at least 17 cities of the country.
-19:40 (GMT+2) There is tension in the centre of Athens, where police attacks to protesters who remain in the streets while they are pushing groups of protesters towards various directions. The cops attacked to demonstrators in Syntagma Sq. while at the moment clashes take place in front of the Polytechnic School.
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