Last night (12.04) the self-organised Navarinou park in Exarcheia, Athens came under attack by the police. 70 people were detained and taken to the police HQ in Alexandras Avenue held for hours and released, of course, with no charges. Amazingly, the detainees included one dog whose unlucky owner had taken for a stroll at the [...]

Tonight, around 1,000 people (according to Athens IMC) responded to the call-out by the open assembly of the self-organised park in Exarcheia and took to the streets of the neighbourhood against police violence and state repression (callout). The demonstration was called after the police raid of the neighbourhood on September 4, during which armed police [...]

04:03 am For a second consecutive night the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia had been under siege by the cops. Some of the cops who approached the area’s self-organised park were attacked with molotov cocktails. Up until an hour ago, at least, clashes and skirmishes around the area continued. Eye-witnesses speak of barricades being set up [...]

In the early hours of Friday 4.9 the self-organised park in Exarcheia once again came under attack by the police. Earlier, police jeeps tried to cross through Messologiou Street: the very same street where Alexis Grigoropoulos was assassinated in December. People present tried to resist the shameless police provocation; only moments later a full-scale police [...]