ENDURE A CELL

Greek’s premier anarchist bombers, ‘The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire’ have been on trial. A court in Athens on Tuesday (19th) found six out of the nine defendants guilty of criminal offences, one guilty of minor charges and the final two were acquitted. Oddly, it seems one of the only things they were not accused of is conspiracy!

Out of those charged, Haris Hatzimichelakis and Panagiotis Argirou were found guilty of setting up a terrorist organisation, possession and making of explosives, and ‘moral instigation’ of three bomb explosions - and 25 years in prison. The three explosions correlate to the attack on former deputy interior minister’s home on July 2009, the blast at the ministry of Macedonia and Thrace that same year and the blow out at a PASOK official’s home a few weeks later (see SchNEWS 755).

The other four who were charged were bludgeoned similarly, getting between 11 and 20 years each for ‘membership of a terrorist group’.

Whilst the rebels are laid to rest, the people responsible for the crisis were meeting yesterday (21st) in Brussels to thrash out ways of lending even more unrepayable cash in the desperate hope of avoiding the inevitable Greek default and ensuing eurozone financial fallout.