Greece: 15 y.o. student killed by cops
On Saturday 6 December, Alexandros, a 15-year old student, was murdered with a bullet in the chest by a cop in the area of Exarchia in Athens. In response to this, riots erupted in the streets Athens, Thessaloniki and elsewhere, and seem to be still going on.
In Italy, the Wave has been paying attention to these events. For example in Bologna, people from the social center TPO occupied the Greek consulate on Tuesday morning (pictures).
Global Project has published an interview with Fani from the Anti-authoritarian Movement in Thessaloniki.
Fani says all the political parties are asking the government to resign. There have been big demonstrations every day, and all the associations and unions have expressed their solidarity.
The government has been pushing for a reform on education.
In Greece exists a kind of “political asylum” in the university, which dates back to 1974. This is a consequence of the brutal clashes between students and the dictatorship, in which more than 50 people were killed by the army. So, this “political asylum” was a concession from the part of the successive democratic government. Now they are trying to break off this pact. Seems that it’s not valid anymore: the cops have already shot tear gas to an occupied university.
So, there is rage also because of this. And there is a lot of rage towards the government because of poverty and because of this economic crisis. People were waiting for a point of rupture to take to the streets and this has happened.
Through the mainstream media, they are trying to calm things down by naming the protesters anarchists. But the truth is that there are thousands of people in the streets and not only people who could be defined as “evil anarchists”.
We are continuing the mobilizations. Students continue to organise themselves in the faculties against the reform of the education system. But it’s not only about the education reform, it’s also about precarity, police brutality… People don’t believe in the government anymore.
There’s also a communication in English from the occupied polytechnic university of Athens.