(en) Greece,Fails the repressive plan premeditated police in the manifestation of November 17 - two takes (pt)

Take 1: More than 30,000 people participated in the demonstration on November 17, 2014 in 
Athens, on the 41st anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising in 1973 against the 
dictatorship of the time. Before the start of the demonstration approximately 7,000 
uniformed officers and plainclothes had been scattered in the city center, reminding us 
that "the dictatorship did not end in 1973," according to one of the slogans shouted in 
the march to the US embassy. ---- Before the rally, the repressive forces of the regime 
had created an environment of terrorism, with dozens of preventive retention of people who 
went to concentrations of manifestation, and thousands of police lined up around the 
buildings of the colleges of central Athens, closed since last Friday for Democracy, 
specifically, by order of the president of the University of Athens.

During the demonstration the police confirmed with your attitude so many people have 
commented late last week: That she would provoke the protesters, and would do everything 
possible to break up the march. And made a brazen manner. Since the beginning of march the 
presence of police involving virtually all anarchist bloc was sweltering, and the attitude 
of the police was blatantly provocative. About three hours after the start of the march, 
and when she was going on peacefully, suddenly and without the slightest pretext the 
police made an attack against the anarchist block. During this brutal police and totally 
unjustified attack, the police began to pick anarchists and all the demonstrators who were 
at that moment in scope.

In the video we see two seguir? rush police during the march against the anarchists and 
other protesters block.

However, the objective of the repressive forces had not been achieved. Police managed to 
dissolve the demonstration, however, the reaction of the protesters was not expected that 
the Police. Most attacked protesters regrouped and continued marching toward the US 
embassy, despite the constant provocations of the police. Following the repression 
occurred in the Exarchia neighborhood, where many anarchists and leftists came after 
police onslaught against the anarchist block, and once the march ended.

In this neighborhood the police went on to a real repressive orgy. Motorized police or 
members of the so-called riot forces began to persecute, insult, arrest and assaulting 
anyone who was in the streets, sweeping away everything they encountered on their way. 
They destroyed a part of a kiosk owners beat us, broke into a house to chase the 
protesters who have taken refuge inside it to escape the repressive anger, smashing 
windows of shops and residences, lots of grenades fired tear gas and moral effect in a 
densely populated urban area, the neighbors insulted, and began many different 
provocations to which we are accustomed.

An example mentioned earlier is the attitude of the police in abaixo? video. They beat a 
person who is lying on the ground. One says to the other that will leave the injured 
person they fallen in the street.

While many protesters were arriving in Exarchia, a person on the internet who reported on 
a neighborhood street several "hooded" descended from a police van (whose number plate was 
not made public in the complaint), heading for Exarchia . As mentioned above, the goal of 
the police and their political bosses was clear. It was so clear that the vast majority of 
the protesters and people in general do not take the bait.

Not happened organized and expanded with the police in Exarchia clashes after the arrival 
of the anarchist block in this neighborhood. Some groups of protesters threw Molotov 
cocktails and stones at police, but the provocative attitude of the latter was 
premeditated and deliberate, and certainly independent of these limited confrontations. We 
observed that during the raid the police in Exarchia, many of the locals played their 
balconies various objects at police, causing confusion and, in some cases, causing them to 
run from their posts.

So far we are writing these lines in Athens, deductions were made 64 and 10 preventive 
arrests.

In Thessalonica , the march was very large. The police presence was equally as 
suffocating in Athens, prompting the protesters to stop running for a while, protesting 
and shouting slogans against the police. There were limited confrontations between 
protesters and police. In Patras , a group of protesters attacked the so-called "Palace 
of Justice" city, with stones and Molotov cocktails. Additionally, this city also 
confrontos? were limited.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAjzVrl1Tws#t=247

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci4e2RGt3c4

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttNt1ve5nbM

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Take 2:

VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH08njM1Aw0~ A 2000 strong anarchist black bloc 
marches in Athens, Greece during the anniversary of the student revolt against the 
dictatorship of 1973 [17/11/2014]

Athens, Greece.17th of November is the day where the student revolt against the 
dictatorship in Athens, Greece in 1973 is being commemorated. The 3days festivities lead 
to a march at the streets of every city in Greece, but mainly in central Athens where a 
usually massive march is organized towards the American embassy, that is being blamed of 
co-operating and imposing the junta regime at the time.

Like every other year the police measures are suppressive to an extreme length while this 
year almost 7.000 cops or more were guarding a march of 50.000 people focused particularly 
around the black block of approximately 2.000 anarchists and antiauthoritarians.

Several days (14 November 2014) in an unprecedented move, the greek state showed its fear 
of just a memory of a revolt 41 years ago and without any prior notice closed down all 
main universities in the center of Athens and encircled them with scores of riot policemen 
and bikers.

In response students organized a marched and hundreds tried to approach the Polytechnic 
School of Athens in Exarchia and take it over, only to be brutally attacked by the greek 
riot police.

On November 17, 2014 the center of Athens reminded of a city under siege by the police, 
whether in uniform or undercover performing continuous searches on passers by, in some 
occasions detaining people known for their political ideology while they were exiting 
their homes and blocking all the subway exits in the main metro lines.
Athens was looking like being under a military dictatorship regime once again, a fact that 
didnt deter anarchists from joining the protest while a black bloc of approximately 2.000 
or more was formed. Throughout the whole protest the hundreds of riot police cops 
encircled the block tightly, which in turn fueled the passion of anarchists shouting 
solidarity and anti-police slogans.

Due to the suppressive and provocative police attitude the protest turned into a riot 
while the police feared of the black bloc approaching the final destination of the march 
so few blocks away from the american embassy and without any prior provocation riot police 
heavily attacked the bloc in their attempt to completely dismantle it, reminding people 
that a dictatorship wearing a democratic mask is still a dictatorship. [2]