Attacks on Surveillance Cameras in Greece

Just a few of the many attacks on surveillace cameras in Athens, Greece, over the past year:

2006

February 13 - Some 15 people set fire to the base of two surveillance cameras, destroying them, in in broad daylight.

"On Monday 13/2/06 around 12 noon, anarchist comrades burnt 2 cameras in Athens city centre at Mihalakopoulou and Feidippidou st. in the Goudi area.

ALL OUR MOVEMENTS ARE BEING RECORDED, IT'S TIME TO SEE ALL CAMERAS DESTROYED
THE FIGHT GOES ON"
- from Athens Indymedia

February 10 - One surveillance camera was burned and destroyed in southeastern Athens.

January 24 -

"At about 12:30 in the afternoon, anarchist comrades burnt the surveillance video-camera, located on the corner of Kokkinopoulou and Katekhaki st., in Ghoudi, just 70m from the main entrance of the riot police camp.

STOP THE SOCIAL CONTROL MECHANISMS
BURN THE VIDEO-CAMERAS
THE STRUGGLE GOES ON"
- from Athens Indymedia

2005

October 10-11 -

"Late in the night of Monday the 10th to Tuesday the 11th of October, while on the hill of Ai-Yannis, in the area of Dafni-Neos Kosmos, we came upon a sudden and violent attack of at least 20 cops -- some of them in uniforms, some others undercovered -- who, after surrounding the hill, came at us with guns, swearing and threatening us. After we were chased out of the area, and after some guns shots were fired at us, we were arrested and led to the Security Force Headquarters, in Alexandra ave. There, we were kept completely isolated from the outer world (they wouldn't let us make a phonecall for more than 12 hours, not even to a lawyer) and after subsequent extortive inquisition sessions and investigation of our homes, we were told we faced 6 criminal accusations, concerning 2 nearby video-cameras having been set on fire. We denied every accusation from the very beginning, so the public prosecutor reduced them to 3 (1 criminal offence about constructing and possessing a molotov cocktail plus 2 minor offences about arson and damages caused).

The fact that we deny having been involved in this very case, does not mean we disagree with such reactions to the wide-spread control by the state against its vassals. We live the everyday asphyxiating conditions of the suppression, the commercialization of everything and the surveillance, widely "offered" by local and international gangs of bosses; we consciously choose the way of resisting against every sort of authorities. Such actions are part of the total social revolt and struggle, against what domineers over our lives and keeps us far from freedom...

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION
2005/10/12 SECURITY HEADQUARTERS detaining cells, the 5 arrestees"
- from Athens Indymedia

July 2 - Anarchists set fire to five cameras, each in a different parts of Athens.

June 5 - One camera was burned.

June 4 - Six cameras were destroyed.

April 22 - A car belonging to an official from the Public Works Ministry's traffic monitoring unit was attacked with an explosive. Police speculate that the action was a response to the official's defence of the use of the cameras on a TV program earlier in the week.

March 23 - Two cameras were set on fire and seriously damaged.

March 4 - A firebomb was hurled at a camera, causing serious damage.

January 20 - A group of about 40 anarchists blocked traffic with a banner and destroyed two surveillance cameras.

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