Open letter of Pola Roupa about the helicopter attempt to break Nikos Maziotis out of Koridallos prison (Greece) – Eng/ Esp

from thefreeonline on 9th Jan 2024 by The Anarchist Library

Below is the first part of the comrade’s long letter; originally published in Greek on Athens IMC . + in Spanish (Google trans)

Open letter of Pola Roupa about the attempt to break Nikos Maziotis out of Koridallos prison (Greece) — Pola Roupa

Under other circumstances, this text would be written by Revolutionary Struggle. However, the outcome of the attempt to break out the comrade Nikos Maziotis of Koridallos prison obliges me to speak personally.

On February 21^st [2016], I attempted to break out Revolutionary Struggle member Nikos Maziotis by helicopter. The operation was planned so that other political prisoners could join us, who wished to make their way to freedom.

Details of the plan, how I managed to evade the security measures and board the helicopter armed, have no special significance and I will not refer to them; despite the fact that there has been a lot of misinformation.

Just for the sake of clarity, I will only mention that the plan was not based on any previous helicopter prison escape, it is not associated with any findings of plans not yet implemented, and I do not have any relation to another fugitive person despite media portrayals to the contrary.

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Also, this attempt was not preceded by any escape plan that “was wrecked”, as reported by some media.

A quarter of the journey after our takeoff from Thermisia in Argolida, I took out my gun and I asked the pilot to change course. Of course, he did not understand who I am, but he realised it was an attempted prison break. He panicked. He attacked me pulling out a gun – a fact he “omitted”. Also because they will likely try to refute the fact he was armed, I remind everyone that there are publicly available reports about the discovery of two mags in the helicopter. One was mine, but the second wasn’t mine. The second mag was from his own gun, which he dropped from his hands during our scuffle during flight. And as for me, of course I had a second mag. Would I go to such an operation with only one mag?

Rise of social struggle under Martial Law in Ukraine

from thefreeonline on 9th Jan 2024 by assembly.org at libcom. inserts thefreeonline

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