Athens, Greece: ‘Direct Action Cells’ – Incendiary Attack on the House of MEP Eliza Wozemberg
“Dead children don’t go away. They stay at home
and have a separate preference for playing in the closed hallway
and every day they grow in our hearts, so
that the pain under our ribs is no longer from deprivation
but from growth.”
Giannis Ritsos
The Direct Action Cells take responsibility for the placing of an incendiary device at the entrance of the house of Eliza Wozemberg in the Varkiza area in the early morning hours of 26 February. We visited this piece of trash to place our small piece in the mosaic of acts of revenge against those who have cynically stained their hands with blood in the murder of 57 people in Tempe and have tried to cover each other’s asses in a coordinated manner. The chronicle of the crime and its cover-up is pretty much known. The vanguard to save the shattered government’s reputation is made up of some shit-sucking mouthpieces of the right-wing bloc, whether they are MPs and ministers or journalists (like an old acquaintance of ours, Portosalte, who doesn’t seem to have a brain) or even “simple and humble” executives and party members who in the social media also reproduce the party’s main line of laundering the money of those directly involved and attacking the victims’ relatives. Wozenberg could not stand back and keep a low profile. She stood out from this shitty crowd and attacked Karystianou, the mother of one of the victims and president of the Association of Relatives of the Tempi victims, accusing her of deceit, of slandering the country internationally and of having no right to accuse Kostas Karamanlis. For our part, we responded to Wozenberg as she deserves. We answered her because the dead in Tempi could have been us, our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers, our friends and comrades. We ask no one for an account to avenge our dead. This is our answer to Wozemberg. With fire, as she deserves.
“You hit one to scare 100” Mao Tse-tung
The reason our team targeted Wozemberg is because of the dirty role she has played at the European level in covering up the Tempi crime. Mitsotakis took advantage of his lobbying support for the re-election of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and that support was compensated for, with 2 buffers. The appointment of Wozenberg to the position of chairman of the Transport Committee in the European Parliament and the appointment of Apostolos Tzitzikostas to the position of EU Commissioner for Transport and Tourism. In this way the Mitsotakis regime has also secured European immunity for its crimes as the 2 main positions in the EU dealing with transport issues are held by New Democracy appointees. Therefore, the New Democracy ensures that there will be no unexpected consequences for the crime of Tempe and its subsequent cover-up on the part of the “European institutions”.
Besides, Wozemberg had the audacity to recognize in Karamanlis an innocent minister without responsibility and at the same time to desecrate the memory of the dead by accusing their relatives of being politically motivated. She has probably forgotten the times when her ancestors (during the monarchy of Otto, which is her lineage) would have already sent people like Karastianou and anyone who would have questioned their God-given right to rule us to the gallows. That’s why, after all, she got what she deserved. Just as we also understand that it makes sense that a proud descendant of a royal family would become a shield for a descendant of a stinking family of politicians like the Karamanlis. A family that still has some property titles in the New Democracy so that so far at least it has managed to save from criminal liability the tub of guts who was angrily protesting train safety just days before their clash. One hand washes the other and the two together attempt to push the dead of Tempi into oblivion as an accident of the rank and file.
We are outraged that all these scumbags like Wozemberg, Mitsotakis, Adonis, Karamanlis, Voridis, Markopoulos, Voultepsi and dozens of other members of the government mafia come out without fear and with enormous arrogance to attack relatives of the dead, scientists and experts who question the government’s narrative. It infuriates us that this arrogance and the tone of a thousand hearts with which they speak is also stepping on the support of a section of society. A rotten piece that only looks out for themselves, the little extra money they make and supports a government of proven mobsters and murderers. On February 28th those of us who demand street justice must do everything in our power to break this arrogance of theirs. We should cut out their tongues and send them to the dustbin of history, that is, where their natural habitat is.
We mentioned above about the vanguard of this whole front formed to ensure the disappearance of collective and individual responsibilities of the political leadership at either the governmental or local level. Of course, experts, forensic experts and other useful knowing idiots were added to this formation as blameless helpers. Their role is to scientifically assert the randomness of the incident, the negligence of the government and most recently to convince us that the donkey is flying as the explosion created by the train collision does not appear to have resulted from the presence of undeclared flammable materials on the freight train. Here is perhaps the most pivotal turning point of the desperation with which they sloppily and with clear arrogance put together their canvas of alibis for the crime they committed. The deathly apathy that the Greek people have shown for anything imposed on them, especially in the last five years, has created the arrogant reflexes with which they discover years of videos in computer recycling bins with mismatched dates. But the anxiety of hiding the truth is in the nature of the government and the family that leads it, and they say that sooner or later you can’t hide from your nature.
The connection of the New Democracy and especially of the Mitsotakis family with organized crime, let alone with the inflow of funds into the pockets of the family – having the role of pimp/provider of activities across the entire spectrum of the economy, legal and otherwise – began to become apparent with the passage of the National Intelligence Service under the direct control of the Prime Minister (it was the first move of the Mitsotakis government in 2019) and the appointment of his nephew Grigoris Dimitriadis as its Secretary General. Dimitriadis, on Mitsotakis’ orders, set up a parastatal mechanism aimed at blackmailing political opponents of the regime and financially benefiting from the control of illegal activities such as fuel smuggling, gambling, prostitution, etc. On the one hand, through the National Intelligence Service and other private companies, controlled by friends of the prime minister’s nephew, they monitored politicians, journalists, judges for the purpose of blackmail, and on the other hand they allied themselves with various businessmen and parts of organised crime in order to control the flow of large amounts of black money gained from the whole range of illegal activities. We are not reinventing the wheel. We are stating the obvious. The right-wing government plays the role of capo di capi of organised crime, maintaining a role of referee with the appropriate rewards but also the privileges that it naturally offers both to the mafias who, for example, are active in fuel smuggling and to the businessmen who launder these activities. Shipowners, channel owners, owners of oil companies and large privatised gambling companies, owners of football teams are some of the nodes in the government-business-organised crime triangle.
So we have before us an apparent existence of a cargo of tons of aromatic hydrocarbon (DN:also known as ‘arene’) on the freight train. This material is used extensively in fuel adulteration. On the other hand, we have a furious attempt to conceal the existence of this cargo. The site was patched up after a week, no samples were taken for analysis from the site until long after the fact so that no chemicals could be detected, the victims’ samples were ordered destroyed, no video was taken from the dozens of cameras that the freight train passed, audio documents were tampered with, video footage was falsified to show that the first cars of the freight train were supposedly empty. They were so hasty in their attempt to cover up evidence that they swooped down on the bodies of the dead by dumping their remains in various dumpsites in the area. All of the above leads us to a safe conclusion: the cover-up of the crime of Tempi by the New Democracy and the Mitsotakis regime has nothing to do with the political responsibilities of the government but directly concerns the illegal cargo that was on the freight train and was destined for the circuit described above, of which the Mitsotakis family itself was a part through his nephew and right-hand man Grigoris Dimitriadis. Only in this way can we understand exactly how a state system of cover-up works. By understanding its entire complex, even its parastatal extensions.
Somewhere here comes, if you understand the sequence of responsibilities, the moment to realize your own debt. We laugh at the denunciations of the left and the demands for civil justice. It is not possible to give justice to a section of the regime itself when it is actually confronting its political superiors. When it confronts those who appointed them to the high offices of the supposedly independent judiciary. At best they should find some Iphigenia to sacrifice, i.e. throwing Karamanlis into the fire to keep up appearances. But apart from the inability of the civil justice system to deliver justice for reasons of self-interest, we are saying something clear. Justice can only be done by those who have nothing left to lose. The state apparatus is in a historic moment of desperation and is trying to maintain its hitherto mighty power by hook or by crook. But those of us who recognise that it is no longer working are also in desperation. The economic deadlocks are obvious in social life but it doesn’t take much brainpower to see the value and ideological deadlocks that have been going on for years. We don’t say it first. The world of ideologies has come to an end as we knew it at least. Political indifference has spread like a virus especially among younger generations. But the reality is not linear but chaotic. We have no choice but to bet our dice that all this desperation, which for many has until recently translated into apathy, will soon turn into a wave of anger. That is who we are addressing. It is the outburst of rage that will do justice to our dead. A rage that will manifest its first outburst on 28 February violently and impetuously.
But those who recognize their duty to avenge the murder in Tempi, for every measure that makes them suffocate and for every pain that capitalist brutality has caused them, must realize that what they have to lose from a life of emasculated and dumbed-down “happiness” is an artificial and empty fiction and that they must take a leap. For some, overcoming apathy and for others, leaving behind the fatalism of past movement greatness is the way to walk on new paths. Paths painted by the blood of our dead, but guided and compassed by the retribution of pain and fear to those who arrogantly and monopolistically challenge them to maintain a rotten world. The path of revolutionary violence and direct action is our proposal for dealing with today. Criticism of the present and its defenders, through violent methods, will renew and reshape the map of the revolutionary movement. It is, after all, organised violence that is the most historic and faithful tool of those who maintain the revolutionary tradition and the one to which those who have at times despaired of regime oppression have always resorted.
One of the people who put into practice what we mentioned above and to whom we dedicate our energy was the comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris. His death from a bomb explosion on the cursed morning of October 31st, in an apartment in Ampelokipoi, will mark every conspiracy attempt we make, every attack we launch. Comrade Kyriakos was a urban guerrilla who stamped his life choices with his revolutionary ideals. He decided to clash with domination through armed propaganda. Unwillingly, uncompromisingly, unyieldingly. Enlisted in the most advanced lines of the anarchist struggle and armed with a revolutionary conscience, he fought modern barbarism to the end. The comrade chose militant resistance, urban guerrilla warfare as part of the process for social and class struggle for change. He acted in a profoundly human way, he did not turn his eyes to injustice and inequality, to oppression and exploitation. He envisioned a new world and decided to tear down the old one. He lived and died as he chose. Fighting and rebelling. Wanting to honour Kyriakos’ fighting choices as well as his memory, we have given his name to the cell that carried out the action.
HONOR FOREVER TO COMRADE KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS IMMEDIATE SOLIDARITY TO COMRADE MARIANNA
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE OTHER COMRADES ACCUSED OF THE SAME CASE
28 FEBRUARY EVERYONE IN THE STREETS OF FIRE
NOT TO GET USED TO DEATH
STRENGTH AND SOLIDARITY TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN ITALY, IN PALESTINE, IN THE USA AND IN EVERY CORNER OF THE PLANET
Direct Action Cells – ‘Kyriakos Xymitiris’ Cell
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Athens, Greece: ‘Direct Action Cells’ – Responsibility claim for the incendiary attack on the house of MEP Eliza Wozemberg
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