Summary of Day 7 (February 3) of 2nd Halandri Case Trial

In short, all the objections and demands presented by the defense during the previous session were rejected, and the trial was postponed until Monday, February 13.

Meanwhile, the comrades read a statement in which they declared that if the mobilizations currently taking place in Greek prisons continue, then they will not attend the trial.

Certain legislative reforms that could have led to the release of 1,500 prisoners were recently “promised” by the justice ministry, but they were ultimately shot down in Parliament by the right-wing parties. Part of the prison population, realizing that the politicians were once again playing their dirty games on the backs of prisoners, undertook collective protests. On February 1, prisoners at Korydallos, Alikarnassos, Trikala, and Larissa refused to enter their cells after their midday hour in the yard. On February 3, prisoners at Avlona juvenile prison did the same, while 103 prisoners at Korydallos women’s prison signed a statement announcing their boycott of prison food from February 3–9. We will continue to update this story as it develops.

The following is the complete statement by the Fire Cells Conspiracy:

Political Statement by the Fire Cells Conspiracy Revolutionary Organization Regarding the Prison Mobilizations

Anyone who has stood in front of a prison and not felt ashamed at human history’s degradation must either be blind or a prison guard.

A few days ago, mobilizations began in a number of Greek prisons to add the benefits of leave-taking and sentence reductions to the rights of prisoners, as well as to regulate the accumulation of sentences by stripping them of their vindictive character.

At the same time, the reality of Greek prisons is well-known: overpopulation, people sleeping on the floor, and a lack of food, heat, and hot water.

These are images drawn from a parallel future of modern civilization, images that will soon be spreading outside the prison walls.

Conservatives and loyal citizens might say this is all about “criminals who don’t have the right to protest or demand anything.”

But prison is the mirror of society. It is a storage space where society tosses its “mistakes” and hides its guilty secrets.

Because it’s an open secret that the system of power and the society of exploitation and oppression themselves produce their own “criminals.”

Naturally, we know that a prison with hot water and better food, even if it perhaps becomes more bearable, will always be a prison—a monument that forever recalls the captivity of freedom and life.

Material supplies (which are nowadays being eliminated) are often conceded in order to further numb prisoners and keep them quiet and disciplined. Nevertheless, prison is always prison, and the struggle against it will not end until the destruction of the last wall entombing our lives.

We aren’t going to stand around with our arms crossed waiting for that day to come.

Each small or large jolt—by the “free” as well as the prisoners—to society’s peaceful dream is a beginning, whatever shape it may take. Perhaps those jolts will become the first raindrops before the storm, at which point we certainly won’t be sitting in your courtroom.

We will be right where our anarchist conscience guides us. There, where voices and actions nullify the timetable of the guards, imprisonment, and captivity—by the fires, in the clashes, on the prison roofs.

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