florian schneider on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:33:55 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> migrant selling pirate cds killed by police in greece |
A few weeks ago, an underage immigrant falls from the balcony during a police raid in a neighborhood of France. The policy of Sarkozy, the policy of Karamanlis, the policy of fortress Europe. Each year thousands of young people, whose only "crime" is that they search for a better life, find a horrible death. Characteristic examples of this policy are the minefields of Evros and the new migrant detention prisons, the absolute rejection of political asylum applications, the fact that migrants are held in a condition of hostage, which prohibits them from any labour or social claim. The terrorising conditions in which these people are condemned to live, lead them to actions of despair. The police is not the moral perpetrator, but the device of a system that condemns all the workers to live under the regime of terrorism. The police headquarters not only deny the presence of police officers at the specific time in the cafe, but also have made nothing for the arrest of perpetrators. Where is the draft sketch of the perpetrators? Tens of witnesses exist that saw the two perpetrators move away as if nothing happened. All the shopkeepers of Kalamaria know them, but police don?t? Our unspeakable indignation, the rage that overflows will become a wave against each attempt of the crime?s cover-up, against state?s racist savagery. Those who attack immigrants will have to know that they do not have only the Nigerian community opposite them, but all the immigrants and Greeks that fight for the human rights. We ask: * Direct arrest of the perpetrators * Attribution of responsibilities to the police for NOT arresting the perpetrators * Direct publication of the pending residence permits for his relatives so that they return decently to Nigeria for the funeral * The cost of the dead body transport to Nigeria to be undertaken by the Greek state * Unconditional Legalisation of all immigrants. Nigerian Community Migrants Forum (migrants Forum of Thessaloniki <emfoth@gmail.com> ) Antiracist Initiative of Thessaloniki (antiratsistiki@lycos.com, www.socialcenter.gr) ------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- See also http://athens.indymedia.org/?lang=en ------------ A demo already took place on Monday at Kalamaria, with the participation of more than 500 people from the Nigerian community, the migrants forum, as well as from antiracist initiative and antiauthoritarian groups. A second demo took place today, Tuesday, called by antiauthoritarian groups, and the protests have been announced to go on the following days. -----Yana Chouvarda Antiracist Initiative of Thessaloniki, Greece # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@kein.org and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org