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A text in response to ongoing raids on homes
of comrades in Athens and Thessaloniki
Sasta - February 2014 - Greece

This is a text handed out by the Anarchists assembly
for the connection of struggles within the prison-society
(“Sasta”), in Thessaloniki, concerning recent house
searches in the framework of an anti-terrorist “pincer operation” unleashed by the Greek police against anarchist/
antiauthoritarian individuals since January 21st, 2014.
Lately, in the cities of Thessaloniki and Athens, cops of
the anti-terrorist force and the state security have invaded homes of fighters and residences of their wider
friendly milieu, based on the ostensible pretext of receiving an “anonymous complaint” about weapons and
explosives, while they declare - to television receivers
- that this operation is linked to the investigation for the
detection of Christodoulos Xiros (convicted member of
the revolutionary organization “17 November” who recently escaped while on prison furlough). These raids
tend to become just another ordinary phenomenon; in
the last month alone, 60 house searches were conducted, with the Greek police giving a true recital… Hooded
cops occupy our personal spaces, roam our neighbourhoods, and detain our comrades, carrying out an antiterrorist “super operation” as too many times before…
This operation cannot be seen as a detached action involving only persons of the anarchist milieu. We have

witnessed similar moves being tested a year ago, also on
a large scale, with searches in the homes of residents in
Halkidiki Peninsula (Northern Greece), who are resisting gold mining. Also then, the State’s goal was to disarm
social reflexes and halt action within that struggle.
The specific practice can only be viewed as a show of
force by Power that aims to intimidate and terrorize all
those who resist; those who are against Power, those
who do not choose to stand uninvolved in the enslavement regime which the authorities want to impose on
us. A practice adjacent to the rest of the State’s repressive plans: establishing a maximum security prison for
revolutionaries, banning prison furloughs and tightening
the legal consequences for fighters, conducting chemical war in demonstrations, unleashing pogroms against
migrants, evicting squats, etc.
This “spectacular” repressive operation is an offensive
- this time against anarchists - which aims to serve as
an example against those who resist the State and its
mechanisms, but also as a warning to anyone intending
to oppose its dictates.
At a time when our daily life is strangled by recurring
schedules in workplaces, schools and universities,

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