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The 24-year-old and three other victims of the extreme police violence that occurred yesterday afternoon are free. The chronicle of the repression.
Family and friends who were arrested yesterday for the police attack in Sepolia outside the Evelpidon Street Courts.
All of them were taken to the three-member misdemeanor court, where they were charged, while the trial was postponed for the police to come to testify.
The 24-year-old, a victim of police violence along with his entire family, faces a legal process for violation of coronary artery disease, attempt to inflict dangerous bodily harm, insults due to work, violence against an employee and inflicting bodily harm.
The other three were prosecuted for violating restrictive measures for the coronary artery, attempting to cause dangerous bodily harm, attempting to release a detainee, interruption of service (from the police department).
The mother of the 24-year-old, who was attacked by the police, like her daughter, while her husband is treated in the hospital for a heart problem, said she is proud of her children, noting that they are combatants and victims of the police violence.
Likewise, the mother of another young man arrested, denouncing violence by the police, was characterized by stating that “we are living the iron heel of the repressive state.”
At the same time, a criminal action was initiated for illegally carrying a weapon against the 40-year-old man who was arrested yesterday during a police check before the intervention of the Hellenic Police. against the gatherings of the Polytechnic. The 40-year-old man, convicted of the Revolutionary Struggle, is expected to be tried tomorrow and be in preventive detention.
The chronicle of police barbarism in Sepolia
Yesterday afternoon, after the police attack on the Polytechnic social gatherings, a group of cyclists from EL.AS. He chased a protester, a member of the NAP, home to arrest him and broke into the apartment building. There they beat and arrested the young man, while, according to the complaints, they also beat his mother. They are Katis Orestes and her mother Giotas.
The tension continued in AT Kolonou, where policemen also beat the young man’s sister, while his father, Dimitris, had a serious health problem (suffered an ischemic attack) and had to be transferred to the “Evangelismos” hospital under surveillance. Following an order from the Prosecutor’s Office to release the 55-year-old man, the police left the hospital.
The version of EL.AS.
With three family members arrested, the police announced a total of five arrests “for assaulting police officers.”
In particular, according to the Police, at noon, at the Sepolia subway station, a group of people attacked policemen from the “ACCIÓN” Group, throwing stones at them and wounding two policemen, who were taken to the hospital for first aid.
Shortly after, the men fled the scene and one of them was arrested nearby outside an apartment building. This is Orestis, 24, against whom the Sub-Directorate of State Security of the Security Directorate of Attica filed a complaint for bodily harm, disobedience, resistance, disturbance of the peace in the home, violation of the legislation on weapons and the provisions on coronavirus.
According to the Hellenic Police, after the arrest of the 24-year-old, a group of about 40 people, including his relatives, left the local Police Department, where they threw themselves, insulted and tried to injure themselves with physical force and throwing metal at each other. items to police officers. At that time, four people were arrested, including two relatives of the 24-year-old (sister and mother), against whom the Athens Security Sub-Directorate filed a complaint for attempted serious bodily injury, violence against officials and judges, insults and alteration of domestic property. non-compliance with the laws on weapons.
SYRIZA asks for explanations
“The argument of the supposed defense of public health, with police measures and undemocratic decisions, fell into the void,” commented SYRIZA-PS Head of Citizen Protection, Christos Spirtzis.
As a typical example, he brought the violence exerted by police officers at the entrance of an apartment building in Sepolia, noting that “the shots from the shops that exist are reminiscent of a deranged herd and not of Greek policemen.”
The scenes of violence that we see in the media and on social networks “are nothing like a democratic European country,” he points out and asks the government and the Minister of Civil Protection, Mr. Chrysochoidis, for explanations for the unprecedented events, the police and the extreme right. All over the country “.
