Anti-fascist demonstrators were brutally and unprovoked attacked by riot police officers during a rally held in Galatsi.
As a result of the attack, the severity of which was shocking, 4 people were injured and were taken to Evangelism in order to provide them with first aid, while the Police made a total of 14 arrests.
According to testimonies posted on twitter, during the riot police raid, some protesters fled to an adjacent café to protect themselves from the blows. But this did not deter the riot police, who stormed into the cafeteria and made their way to the toilets, where a mother-customer with a 5-year-old child was located. In the fury of the police “organs” and with the woman screaming for the child, the five-year-old was hit with a club.
Three different confirmed sources confirm the beating with an upside-down baton of a five-year-old boy in the cafeteria in Galati by the Chrysochoidis gang. There was a person with asthma, unrelated to the demonstration, who could not breathe inside the shop. #antireport
- rising_galaxy_studio (@risinggalaxy) November 1, 2020
Do you understand that a grown man being hit by a cop's baton can get killed? Do you understand that in Galati there was NOT an attack on a five year old but an attempted murder? Do you know when was the last time in Greece that a cop killed a five year old? IN HUNTA.
- Notis (@notoylis) November 1, 2020
The uniformed fascists of @chrisochoidis strike in Galati #Hryssochidi_Paradesu pic.twitter.com/06GcPDYAPO
- Lord Sodoff Baldrick (@GreekBlock) November 1, 2020
Complaint by MPA25
The press representative MERA25 Michael Kritharidis issued the following statement:
An unprovoked attack by riot police was met by an antifascist gathering held in the afternoon in Galati, which was initially to be held in Heraklion, but was moved due to a heavy police presence to the place of the original call. A real orgy of police repression against assembled people and passers-by, with four people seriously wounded in the head, which continued even outside the hospital, where the police were lurking to arrest the injured - as it was reported. The antifascist rally had taken place in response to a gathering of members of the fascist form of Kasidiaris, who were not "deserving" of similar treatment by the repressive forces of Mr. Chrysochoidis, unfortunately confirming once again their eclectic relations with the security forces. So, will the brutal violence of the National Police against demonstrators finally stop? All security forces must be democratised immediately and there must be real accountability and visible insignia.
