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International Call for Solidarity
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This text is from comrades in Thessaloniki where there has been an
assembly has already been planned for the appellate court of the comrade,
calling all comrades who can and want to carry out actions in their
cities. Comradely, initiative of comrades from Thessaloniki.
January 2011.
Anarchist babis Tsilianidis is arrested while in clandestinity together
with another 3 comrades, in the frames of a police operation in Athens and
is led to prison.

His persecution concerns (besides the warrant out in his name for the
arson of a vehicle of national electricity company and criminal
organization) charges of the antiterrorist law (distinct weapon possession
and being in an anonymous terrorist organization). Babis refuses to
cooperate with the authorities, does not testify and is detained for both
cases in Koridallos prisons.
November 2011.
The comrade, while being in Koridallos prisons is called for a third time
to the office of the interrogator in order to testify for a new case. This
case concerns an armed robbery in the economic department of Ahepa
hospital in Thessaloniki.
The new indictment is is based on a bandanna found near the area where the
robbery took place, on which, according to the cops, there was Babis DNA
in a mixture with other DNAs.
“The upgrade of oppressive strategy should not surprise us, since the use
of science and technology, which contributed to a great degree to the rise
of authoritative civilization, has always been applied from the state and
dominance. We as anarchists ought to not spend ourselves on pleadings for
the maintaining of our rights by the state, since that presupposes
obligations towards it, a contract we ought to and desire to destroy.”
March and November 2012. The trials for the cases of Athens and
Thessaloniki take place, Babis does not appear and expresses his opinions
about the cases through public texts. In both trials the charges dropped
and only some misdemeanours remain (consisting a gang and complicity in
arson in the first trial with a sentence of 2years-10months, consisting a
gang and simple weapon possession in the second one with a sentence of 4
years). At this point happens the following: The chairmen, for a sentence
which is not even a serving sentence, they deducted from Babis the real
time of his detainments. As non-servable sentence is one which you can
buy-out or is probation (as it happened) until the appeal since it is a
very low sentence. For Babis it is like prison time began again on
December 5th 2012…
January 2013.
The trial for the robbery takes place in Thessaloniki. Babis does not
appear having already stated:
“… for our enemies will always be guilty of our attempt to fulfil our
desire to live free, to define our lives alone, at an individual level as
well as collectively, in harmony with nature, far from networks of
authority, control and mediation, far from relations that reproduce
hierarchies; oppression and exploitation, far from the dependence on
‘specialists’. An attempt, a struggle that goes over the destruction of
capitalism, as well as every form of managing authoritarian civilization.”
In the court and while no witnesses has recognized Babis, and the
biologist-chemist explains that DNA, especially when in a mix, cannot be
used as evidence, the judges under the order of their superiors decides:
10years-4months because as the prosecutor stated: “if he was innocent he
would have given DNA on his own” and “if he was innocent he would come to
court to prove it”.
Babis becomes the first anarchist in the greek territory, who is convicted
with sole evidence a “sample” of DNA. Ever since, history will repeat
itself, and DNA will enough of a “prosecution witness” to lead more
“deviants”, to the prisons of democracy.
Today, anarchist Babis Tsilianidis, is still in prison. The only case that
is basically “holding him” is the robbery, but he cannot take leave days,
or ask for a sentence interruption because of the time he has served for
other cases.
On June 5th is his appeal court in Thessaloniki.

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