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“In Athens today, 27th of March 2018, Tuesday 2 p.m., at the Public Prosecutor’s office at the Supreme Court of Greece, the Deputy Prosecutor at the Supreme Court Ioannis Aggelis called me, the secretary of the Criminal Devision Georgios Sofroniades, and stated that he lodges an appeal before the Supreme Court of Greece, in accordance with the article 505, par. 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code, against the 2186/2017 (2938/16, 3303/16, 518/17, 565/17, 580/17) acquittal decision of the A’ five-member Felony Appeal Court of Athens, whereof the accused Anastasios Theofilou was declared innocent.”

That’s the beginning of the number 21/2018 appeal statement, in which the prosecutor Mr. Ioannis Aggelis demands the annulment of the decision of the five-member Court of Appeal in Athens that acquitted me of all charges and remanded me to a new trial with different judges. Aggelis was recently promoted to the position of Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court. Until then, he had been the supervising prosecutor of the “Anti-Terrorist Unit.”

On the 11th of May, the appeal will be examined by a plenary session of the Supreme Court. If accepted, this means that I return to prison with the initial charges until the trial is repeated at the Court of Appeal with different judges, given that the majority of the A’ five-member Court which acquitted me seems not to be to the liking of the Anti-Terrorist Unit.

As much as the Anti-Terrorist Unit and its surrounding circle of manipulated judges seem to have grown a somewhat obsessive dedication to my face, my case remains one that is not at all personal. It’s political and pertains to the oppressive grip on the anarchist and the wider combative movement as well as our class as a whole. It’s political since all the spearheads of this oppression were revealed socially and brought before social judgment, especially those related to the terror-law, the metaphysical use of DNA samples and the criminalization of social and political relationships. It’s political because it gave prominence to the power and the social influence of the movement; because it proved that the Anti-Terrorist Unit and the judicial circles it manipulates are, if uncontrollable, not yet omnipotent. And that’s what needs to be proved once again on the 11th of May.

PS: As once written by a comrade inside the Grevena prison: “Patience. Strength. Faith in the case. We are right. That’s it!”

Tasos Theofilou

April 4, 2018