Greek anti-fascist musician murdered by neo-Nazi thugs
Pavlos Fyssas, a 34-year-old
left-wing activist and hip-hop artist, was stabbed to death by Golden
Dawn supporters in the Keratsini district of Athens.
A report by Pavlos’ father (via Occupied London):
Pavlos’
friends made a remark against Golden Dawn inside a café where they were
watching a football match. Somebody from a nearby table overheard them
and made a phone call to Golden Dawn members. Golden Dawn squads arrived
almost simultaneously with DIAS motorbike police. Pavlos tried to help
his friends evade the scene, but he was ambushed by another Golden Dawn
squad and surrounded. Then another Golden Dawn associate drove with his
car opposite in an one-way street, stopped and stabbed him to death,
while the DIAS policemen did not intervene. One girl asked them to help
but they didn’t. They only approached afterwards to arrest the man with
the main suspect.
From eye-witness report (via Indymedia Athens):
Around
24:00 a group of 15-20 fascists, wearing black T-shirts and military
pants and boots, was deployed on P. Tsaldari street. During that time,
Pavlos (a.k.a. Killah P) was walking with his girlfriend and another
couple when he was spotted by the fascists shouting “what are you
looking for here, you know there is no place for you in this hood”. The
fascists hunted the two couples down P. Tsaldari street towards Gr.
Lampraki avenue, where from another street, a new group of around 10
fascists came out and surrounded the guys. At that time, a car drove
opposite in an one-way street, stopped, the driver came out and stabbed
Killah P once in the heart and once in the abdomen (the stabbing on his
abdomen had an upside-down “L” shape).
The
whole scene took place in the presence of DIAS motorbike police, who
only afterwards and only as soon as most of the fascists had already
dispersed, arrested the murderer (according to some witnesses Killah P,
while still in shock, kept pointing at the murderer and this is how the
cops arrested him — a 55-year-old holding a knife, described by other
eye-witnesses as a known Golden Down associate). The ambulance took 35
minutes to arrive and Pavlos was pronounced dead at Nikaia general
hospital.”
A call for a gathering on
the spot of his assassination was made for today, Wednesday 18:00, on
60, P. Tsaldari street (from Athens, via public bus B18 from
Ralli-Salaminas, or Γ18 from Gr. Lampraki, from Piraeus via public bus
824 or 826). There are also calls for demonstrations in Thessaloniki:
10:00 in the teachers demo, 16:00 in Physics dept. in AUTH university
campus, 18:00 demonstration from “Kamara” on Egnatia street. In
Mytilene, Lesbos island, 18:00 on Sappho square, in Patras, 10:00 on
Olga square, in Larissa 10:00 in the 1rst Lyceum and 10:30 in the
teachers’ demo, in Komotini and many other towns there also demos on
18:00.
It is hardly surprising that
the Greek police once again did nothing to prevent Golden Dawn’s fascist
violence (Golden Dawn is largely supported by the Greek capitalists,
the government and the church, as a willful thug against militants,
workers and the poor, and more than half of the police vote for this
openly neo-Nazi party) if not actively participating in or covering the
organisation of what looks as a death trap for a well-known radical,
member of the metalworkers union and antifa hip-hop artist in a working
class district, near the spot where a few days ago eight members of the
communist party (KKE) were also brutally assaulted by Golden Dawn
neo-Nazis.
The silence of the mass
media, which are kept alive with the government’s vast loans and
benefits, is hardly surprising. They either decided to describe the
assassination as a “fight after an argument about football” or not to
mention it at all. They are the same mass media that promote every
misanthropic Golden Dawn activity as an “opposition to the system’s
flaws”, and lately as a realistic government partner for the future.
They are of course the voice of their owners, the same few families of
capitalists, owners of a shitload of tanker ships, banks and hotels that
support the right-wing government and its thuggish little counterpart
on the streets, the Golden Dawn, in what they see as a Golden
opportunity to get rid of workers’ rights and turn Greece into a proper
labor camp under the nationalist and religious kitsch.
It
is worth noticing that this is a hard time for the government and their
Nazi counterparts, as even after their full scale assault on
anarchists, squatters, and workers’ struggles, the movements seems to
find again its momentum, with the current struggles of the teachers, the hospital workers, and so on.
Some additional info can be found in twitter: @antireport,#antireport, #KillahP
http://roarmag.org/2013/09/pavlos-fyssas-killed-golden-dawn/
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