Sixteen years later, the greek state is once again bringing the Marfin bank case to the forefront of media and repressive attention. The ‘New Democracy’ party (the ruling party) is attempting once again to criminalise the massive and highly confrontational protest that took place at 5 May of 2010 against the austerity measures designed to shift the burden of the economic crisis to the oppressed. During this protest three workers who despite the general strike where forced to be at their workplace lost their lives. The trial has already concluded, resulting in the conviction of the bank's CEO, the head of security and the branch manager. Yet, despite this there have been repeated attempts to frame comrades dragging them through sham trials where the state's lies have been totally dismantled.

Sixteen years later, the government and its media is attempting to shift the pre-election agenda once again to the convenient target- the anarchist movement. Specifically, our comrades whose homes were raided, two of whom have been incarcerated and another one is waiting for extradition from the UK to appear before the interrogator . The ‘evidence’ presented in the media so far is reaching new levels of absurdity. From anonymous phone calls to which we have – unfortunately – become accustomed, we moved on to anonymous emails. AI software was deployed 16 years later to match photographs from… holidays showing similar clothing.

Sixteen years later, the issues at stake remain the same. In the face of the state’s policies of death, which have made daily life unbearable; the execution of a neurodivergent man because he ran to escape a roadblock; the murder of workers across the country, the deadliest pushback causing more than 650 murders in Pylos, the state murder of 57 people in Tempi, the cooperation with the murderous israeli state in the genocide of the palestinian people and the military operations that are drowning populations in blood across the globe, the only answer is struggle, perseverance, confrontation by any means necessary.

To cover the heavy legal expenses of the ongoing jury process and in order to defeat the state fabrication against our comrades we are calling for international support.

As we stood by our comrades during all these years in demonstrations, squats and struggles we will stand by them in their struggle for freedom.

always in war with the state and its machinations

FREEDOM TO THE INCARCERATED COMRADES

SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE PERSECUTED IN THE MARFIN CASE