26-01-2021
Repost from counter-information webpage.
Solidarity to D. and Th., prosecuted for their anti-hunting action.
In the area of Evia on 26/12/18, D. and Th. confronted a hunter, in order to try to prevent the murder of animals and by extension the exercise of his sadistic hobby. As a result of the confrontation, the hunters hunting rifle was thrown into the forest and D. and Th. got trapped by police vehicles. The charges they are facing after their arrest are the felony of theft (due to the missing hunting rifle) and theft of a phone. Their trial is scheduled for the 28/1/21 at the Court of Felony Appeals in Halkida.
A key role in the pressing of the charges was played by several hunting associations from the whole of Greece, that demanded the condemnation of the actions of D. and Th. The hunting associations in question have been and still are fields of canvassing. This becomes apparent nowadays, in the midst of Covid 19 and government policies concerning the banning or permission of hunting.
Hunting is effectively a hobby with a specific purpose; to act as a proof of the domination of the ‘powerful’ over the ‘weak’. The goal is the satisfaction of violent and dominative complexes and in parallel, a murderous distraction from the sad and miserable everyday life of the ones that practice it. In the modern western world this practice is exercised in order to gain ‘likes’ on social media platforms. Additionally hunting is exercised in order to build a certain profile that encompasses all of the stereotypes that come in conflict and are antithetical to the libertarian ideals that we live and aspire by.
For power to be legalised, it is necessary for it to be dissipated from state mechanisms, to be normalised and reproduced from dominated subjects. To the various forms of exploitation that are produced and reproduced through discrimination (based on class, gender, race etc) hunting is also included. This is because this practice could not be exercised without the impression that humans have the right to exercise power through destroying the natural word in a variety of ways, either in order to satisfy their sadistic tendencies or to gain a financial profit.
We stand in solidarity with D. and Th. Their stance and their choice shall be a catalyst of wider struggles and resistances towards this direction.
Constant struggle for the subversion of the ‘existing’, till the creation of world based on solidarity, equality and freedom.
SOLIDAIRTY WITH D. AND TH.
Anarchist Collective Acte