Friday 12 December 2008

estmate number of arrests

Approximately 300 people have been arrested all over Greece the last four days. This number doesn't include the persons taken from the police to the police stations for the so called “identification”, which is is one of the fascist practices of Greece police, and consequently of the Greek state for all the years after 1974 irrespective of government. This number is at least three times more than the final arrests. “Identification” is called the procedure, when a policeman decides that there are (hidden from you) reasons to take you to a police station. They put you for a couple of hours in a small room (the cell of the station) to wait for the security services to inform the specific station if you have done anything in the past and have not being arrested. And then they set you free. So usually "identification" is used as a punitive method against teenagers as exactly the same job can be done in five minutes through the police car radio.

The numbers are estimate, if there is a safe publication with the total numbers of arrests all over greece, I will post it later

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