Since When Did Terrorism & Robbing Banks Become A New Resistance? (VIDEO)

A letter written by the three, of the four, suspects who last week were arrested in Northern Greece for a double armed bank heist, and who are suspected of being part of the notorious "Conspiracy of Cell" terrorist organization, was published on iefimerida on Wednesday, and which -in our opinion here at HellasFrappe- only sends chills up and down one's spine. The letter which is signed by Nikos Romanos, Andreas-Dimitris Bourzoukos and Yannis Michailidis reads:

    "We want to say a few words from the cells where we are being detained as prisoners to state our aims and intentions in order to clarify the situation regarding the latest events. As Anarchists we consider the choice of a bank robbery as a conscious choice of resistance. Our act was not carried out for personal enrichment. The attack on the temples of the capital is part of our overall revolutionary action.
    Concerning our torture by the forces of repression, we do not want it to be our point of victimization. We did not expect anything different from the enemies of freedom. Let's not forget how many people have been crushed in police stations and prisons. Let our signs of torture become another occasion to transmute anger into action.
    Against the institutional representatives of justice, our attitude will be intransigent and uncompromising.
    WE WILL NOT COOPERATE – WE WILL NOT APOLOGIZE
    LONG LIVE ANARCHY
    The Anarchists
    Nikos Romanos
    Andreas-Dimitris Bourzoukos
    Yannis Michailidis

Meanwhile, two USB sticks of great interest were discovered by police officials at the apartment of 19 El Alamein Str in Maroussi, which authorities claim was rented about a month ago by Nikos Romanos.

Romanos, who was a key witness in the trial of the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos, the teenager who was shot dead by a policeman in December 2008, reportedly used a false identity card, under the name Constantinos Giakoumopoulos, to rent out a second apartment in Halandri, according to police. Police also said discovered plastic bags identical to the ones in which an explosive device planted in The Mall had been transported last month.

Authorities say that everything indicates that the apartment was being used as a meeting point of this specific core, but not the hideout containing their weapons. Apart from the aforementioned apartment, the suspects also rented another place in Kallithea as well as in Northern Greece. They noted that the fingerprints of two of the suspects had been found in two of these apartments – or in the Athens neighborhoods of Kallithea and Halandri –. More specifically, the fingerprints of Andreas Bourtzoukos, 23, were found in the Halandri flat, and those of Nikos Romanos, 20, in a flat in Kallithea.

That apartment was searched by police late on Sunday night, according to sources who said the property bore signs of a break-in, possibly by members of the group attempting to destroy evidence.

(An unknown organization claiming to be the result of a partnership between anarchist groups “Wild Freedom" and “Instigators of Social Explosions” claimed responsibility for The Mall bombing at the end of last month.)

The other two robbery suspects arrested last Friday – Yiannis Michailidis, 25 and Dimitris Politis, 22 – had already been linked to Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Warrants for their arrests had been issued in 2011. The pair were transferred to a specially designed courtroom at Attica’s high-security Korydallos Prison where 17 people are on trial for membership of the group.

Meanwhile Athens public prosecutor Panagiota Fakou launched an investigation into claims that all four suspects were beaten while in police custody. The intervention followed complaints by relatives after photographs of the four suspects, bearing heavy bruises to their faces, were published by police. Indications that some of the photographs were doctored, to conceal the presence of police officers’ hands constraining the suspects or to tone down the bruising, provoked strong criticism. Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said the injuries were sustained during the suspects’ arrest but promised “merciless punishment” if any officers are found to have abused the suspects in custody. He said the photos had been doctored so the suspects would be recognizable to the public. Leftist opposition SYRIZA and Democratic Left, the junior coalition partner, called for a probe into how the detainees sustained their injuries. Romanos said he would not sue the police, claiming to be a “prisoner of war.” “I want the abuse I suffered to prick citizens’ consciences.”

Sources - Newspost, ProtoThema, iefimerida

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