Conspiracy of Cells of Fire trial ends with severe sentences The verdicts and sentences were called in the first Conspiracy of Cells of Fire trial, (the so-called “Halandri case”), and the end results are not good. The three-member tribunal imposed even longer sentences than those requested by the prosecutor: Haris Hatzimichelakis: Guilty of forming a terrorist organization, manufacturing explosives, possessing explosives, and causing explosions at the Ministry of Macedonia-Thrace, the home of former Interior Vice-Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis, and the home of PASOK ministers Louka Katseli and Gerasimos Arsenis. Sentenced to 25 years in prison out of a total combined sentence of 77 years. Panayiotis Argyrou: Guilty of forming a terrorist organization, manufacturing explosives, possessing explosives, and causing explosions at the Ministry of Macedonia-Thrace, the home of former Interior Vice-Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis, and the home of PASOK ministers Louka Katseli and Gerasimos Arsenis. Sentenced to 25 years in prison out of a total combined sentence of 77 years. Giorgos Karagiannidis: Guilty of manufacturing explosives, possessing explosives, and being an accomplice to the explosion at the home of PASOK ministers Louka Katseli and Gerasimos Arsenis. Sentenced to 20 years in prison out of a total combined sentence of 32 years. Panayiotis Masouras: Guilty of manufacturing explosives, possessing explosives, and being an accomplice to the explosion at the home of PASOK ministers Louka Katseli and Gerasimos Arsenis. Sentenced to 11 years and 6 months in prison out of a total combined sentence of 19 years. Submitted an application for a suspended sentence. Alexandros Mitrousias: Guilty of manufacturing explosives, possessing explosives, and being an accomplice to the explosion at the home of PASOK ministers Louka Katseli and Gerasimos Arsenis. Sentenced to 11 years in prison out of a total combined sentence of 19 years. Chose not to submit an application for a suspended sentence. Konstantina Karakatsani: Guilty of manufacturing explosives, possessing explosives, and being an accomplice to the explosion at the home of PASOK ministers Louka Katseli and Gerasimos Arsenis. Sentenced to 11 years in prison out of a total combined sentence of 19 years. Submitted an application for a suspended sentence. Manolis Yiospas: Guilty of three misdemeanors including robbery and fraud. Sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in 46
prison. The prosecutor initially requested that Yiospas be acquitted, and after the prison sentence was announced the prosecutor then proposed a three-year suspended sentence, which the court accepted. Nikos Vogiatzakis: Acquitted of all charges due to lack of evidence. Errikos Rallis: Acquitted of all charges due to lack of evidence. Friends and relatives of the accused, but also the defence, commented on the severity in the imposition of sentences considering that for the majority of those sentenced, the court judged that their participation in the organization was of only a few months. The State, its court and its other dogs have shown once more what happens to decent people who live for freedom. NOTHING IS OVER, EVERYTHING CONTINUES
For correspondence/communication with the prisoners–members of the R.O. CCF, we publish their postal addresses (as of Oct 2011): - Christos Tsakalos, Grevena general detention facility [Geniko katastima kratisis Grevenon], 51 100 Grevena, Greece - Gerasimos Tsakalos, Domokos prisons [Filakes Domokou], 35 010 Domokos, Fthiotida, Greece - Damiano Bolano, Dikastiki Filaki Nafpliou TK 21100 Argolis, Greece - Panagiotis Argyrou, Geniko Katastima Kratisis Domokou, D1 Pteryga, TK 35010 Domokos, Fthiotida, Greece - Haris Hadjimihelakis, Kleisti Filakon Trikalon, TK 42100 Trikala, Greece - Giorgos Nikolopoulos, Komotini judicial prison [Dikastiki filaki Komotinis], 69 100 Komotini, Greece
Rebellion The rebel is a rock in the mud. The rebel, for her it's so easy to stand up in the mud, like it is for a bird to fly or for a weed to grow. Clean is the flight of a bird, clean is the way a flower grows, and clean for a real anarchy is her rebellion. And against this cleaness, there is no kind of impurity that can go against it. Anarchists, this is our moment. With fire in the night, like a firm rock in the mud, with a clean birds flight, may the rebel cross into action. Rebellion, Rebellion, Rebellion! From “Carteles I”, by Rodolfo Gonzalez Pacheco (1882-1949), a series of Spanish language anarchist texts circulating in the Spanish prison system and beyond. Translated by anarchist prisoner Rafael “Jon-Bala” Martinez Zea.
only this address to contact the soli-group. (no other name on envelopes): Post Box 51076 TK. 14510, Nea Kifissia, Athens, Greece
Addresses of the accused, who denied membership of CCF. Panayiotis Masouras Geniko Katastima Kratisis Grevenon TK 51100 Grevena, Greece
- Giorgos Polydoros, Corfu closed prison [Klisti filaki Kerkiras], 49 100 Corfu Island, Greece
Alexandros Mitrousias Dikastiki Filaki Koridallou, A Pteryga TK 18110 Korydallos Athens, Greece
- Olga Ekonomidou, Eleonas, Thebes general detention facility [Geniko katastima kratisis Eleona Thivon], 32 200 Thebes, Viotia, Greece
Konstantina Karakatsani Ginaikies Filakes Koridallou TK 18110 Korydallos Athens, Greece
- Mihalis Nikolopoulos, Trikala closed prison [Klisti filaki Trikalon], 42 100 Trikala, Greece
Giorgos Karagiannidis Dikastiki Filaki Koridallou, A Pteryga TK 18110 Korydallos Athens, Greece
For better and more direct communication, you can write to the comrades in solidarity who have set up a post box. Use