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An unknown story from Exarcheion Square starring an actress who gave us incredible moments on the big screen.
She went down in history as “the cursed poet” of the Exarchates. He played alongside the great names of Greek theater. Her … demons led her to a life far from the conventional. Katerina Gogou, approached the Anti-terrorist as suspected of participation in the terrorist organization “November 17”.
He lived his life in Exarchia. Along with the anarchists, the “black birds” who “travel all the time, because you didn’t leave them little by little”, as she characteristically characterizes in her poems.
Thus, in January 1980, a series of events led Security to question her as a suspect in one of the “November 17” attacks.
Katerina Gogou: her life is a fairy tale
She was born on the first day of June 1940. A small girl, with a strong look. Anxious spirit, he showed his tendency from an early age. He was only 5 years old when he began to perform in theatrical performances. It was not long before he received the title of “child prodigy”.
He lived during the Occupation and the Civil War. He studied acting at the Takis Mouzenidis school. his childhood was difficult. Although her father, with whom she lived until adolescence, was very strict, he was the one who helped her get into acting. Since he was little he participated in theatrical companies and with only 12 years he made a film in the movie “El Otro”. He starred in a total of 14 Greek films and won in 1988 Best Actress Award at the Thessaloniki Festival for the movie “Heavy Melon” in which he starred, directed by Pavlos Tassios.
Pavlos Tassios became his partner and they had a daughter together, Myrto. In your effort to save his daughter from drugs, she herself was seduced by them.
He managed to stay alive up to 53 years, until he couldn’t bear it in 1993 committed suicide. As an actress, she used to be cast in the role of a carefree girl, full of wit. He worked in children’s troupes and continued as a professional actor in theater and film. Rebellion in “Wood came out of paradise”, non-stop dancing in “A crazy, crazy family.” Perhaps acting was his own way out of his troubles. She is a woman with a revolutionary spirit, who expressed herself strongly through her poetic work.
His poems come from his anti-authoritarian spirit, with eyes on gears and racing. There was a rage in his writing that gave rise to hope.
Contacts with the anarchist space
Gogo’s contact with the anarchist space was a catalyst. It was a relationship for life. From an actress who played happy roles, she becomes an angry poet who, through her writing, radiates revolution.
He participates in anarchist mobilizations and does not hesitate to publicly express his solidarity with persecuted people such as Kyriakos Mazokopos or Makis Boukouvalas, who was arrested because his fingerprints were found in the “giafka” on Kalama street in Sepolia, which was connected to And Christos. Tsoutsouvis.
Despite being a recognized figure and a recognized actress, Gogou did not hesitate to attend the squat in Exarchia, to organize concerts in solidarity with the anarchists or against state repression.
His poems were full of social messages. He wrote about the socially excluded. For those who were on the sidelines. At the same time, she was struggling with her own demons that “pushed” her into alcohol and drugs.
The execution of Petros and Stamoulis and the “implication” of Gogos
The calendar showed January 16, 1980. Early in the evening, the deputy commander of the MAT, Pantelis Petrou, leaves his office on Piraeus Street and with his driver, the police officer Sotiris Stamoulis, they head to Pagrati, where he was staying. the house of the first.
On Stilponos Street, however, just 100 meters from Petros’ house, they are ambushed by members of “November 17”. They are shot a total of 11 times with 45 caliber pistols. Peter receives six of the bullets and is killed instantly. Stamoulis accepts the other five but manages to get out of the car, hands his radio to a passerby, and asks him to notify the police. A few days later he will succumb to his injuries.
At the point of execution are the ads for “17N” titled “Fola in the dung dogs of MAT – MAT are the torturers of Karamanlis”. Police investigations begin immediately. All eyewitnesses are being questioned. One of them talks about the executors but also about a woman who participated in the action.
According to the police, he told them that this woman was Katerina Gogou, whom he saw running away from the scene. After a while, a group of police officers went to Gogos’s house, they broke down the door and she almost got up and took her to Security, where they interrogated her.
No one knows if this testimony ever really existed or if it was an attempt to punish Gogou for his public action against the police. The point is that after many hours and exhaustive interrogations, Katerina Gogou was released because not the slightest evidence was found against her. The testimony never came out of the drawers.
The lawsuit against the leader of EL.AS.
On October 3, 1986, in fact, he arrived – in a very symbolic maneuver – to the point of suing the then Minister of Public Order, Antonis Drosogiannis and the then leader of the Hellenic Liberation Army, Nikon Arkoudeas, because on September 28 in a rock concert at the Lycabettus Theater, he was savagely beaten by the police, in episodes that had taken place there.
Being completely self-destructive, she had taken a path of no return. I leave everything. Even favorite political actions. He lost all meaning in life and the end was not long in coming. On October 3, 1993, she was found dead inside her mother’s old apartment in Metaxourgeio. Cause of death, a “cocktail” of pills and alcohol.
On the morning of that day, Gogou had met author George Chronas. “It was around 7:15 and he said, ‘I never asked you for anything, let me drink.’ She was looking at the bottle of whiskey that was behind my head and at 7:15 in the morning I put it on her and she drank whiskey. “When he left he told me ‘I’m going, I’m going there’,” he describes.
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