Blockade of City Hall averts cementing of four squares in Athens suburb

On Tuesday 6th of October, only two days after the national elections that have seen the largest defeat of the right wing in the country's history, 6 local committees and assemblies of Zografou, an Athens suburb in the foothills of Mt Imitos, the east mountain of the greek capital, ruled by a right-wing mayor with chronic hatred of things green, gathered to stop the auctioning of public works that would render four of the suburb's squares parking lots of pure cement and tarmarc.

The protesters blockaded the city hall's doors and were soon confronted by fascist thugs at the orders of the mayor. Mr Kazakos had already distributed plenty of leaflets the previous Saturday meant to intimidate the protesters by summoning "the healthy people of the city" [i.e. the parastate] to counterattack . The thugs tried unsuccessfully to break the blockade, as they were vastly outnumbered. Nor the arrival of a State Persecutor managed to hamper the protest which lasted until after the time appointed for the auction of the five squares. As auctions for public works have according to the law to take place at the prescribed time (in this case between 9 and 10 am) of the specific date appointed, the auction was canceled.

The protesters ended the blockade by forming a protest march through the streets of the suburb chanting slogans against the cementazation and commodification of free space