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Greek police bring women from the protest in Syntagma square on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Wednesday 25 November 2020
EUROKINISSI / TATIANA BOLARI
Despite the strict observance of police protection measures, feminist promotion was carried out under symbolic protest for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Protest demonstration in front of AT Syntagma.
Members of feminist collectives and others are currently holding a protest demonstration in front of the AT Syntagma for the group demonstrations that EL.AS had previously carried out in Syntagma Square, dissolving the symbolic protest of the feminist collectives that demonstrated in women.
Approximately 15 people are at the scene with protest banners. “Every month and femininity, even if it is the pandemic” is one of the characteristic slogans that are heard.
Meanwhile, according to information from “Ef.Syn”. The number of members of left-wing organizations distributing leaflets on the Initiative for the Elimination of Violence against Women has increased.
According to new complaints, in addition to the initial 9 arrests of feminists, the NAP has incorporated more activists: Youth for Communist Liberation, Red Thread, Encounter for the Anticapitalist Left, etc.
According to information from the Police, so far 14 arrests have been made (11 women and 3 men), which are expected to be fined for violating the coronavirus measures.
However, it should be noted that the meetings were not prohibited and that the verification of the movement certificates was carried out at the TA and not on the spot.
Among the accused are members of political organizations, elected trade unionists and activists.
In Α.Τ. of the Constitution have been led by Maria Bolari, member of the International Labor Left, former deputy, Sissy Vovou of the electronic feminist newspaper “To Mov”, Katerina Stergidou of the March 8 Initiative, etc. There is also a group of lawyers and representatives of organizations.
MEPA25 MP Georgios Logiadis is out of AT Syntagma and SYRIZA MP Irini Agathopoulou supported the defendants
The fact that the police requested the information and then brought members of an event for such a serious issue as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women event is unacceptable and is an attempt at terrorism, says Sissy Vovou.
“Minister M. Chrysochoidis had said that demonstrations are prohibited, not small gatherings,” he said, referring to the ban on the march to the Polytechnic.
“During the protest, we kept all distance and protective measures. When we asked the police to tell us why they were taking us, they gave us no explanation. “Now they take us to the department in police vans, three and four, since initially they wanted to get us into the patrol cars,” he complains to Ef.Syn. Katerina Giannioula, one of the accused members of the Panhellenic Federation of Public Sector Geotechnics.
THE.AS. confirmed the accusations but did not reveal the cause.
