After spending five years behind bars as a political prisoner, Greek anarchist communist Tasos Theofilou reflects on life in prison and prison’s role in society.
Anarchist-communist Tasos Theofilou was arrested by the Greek Anti-Terrorist Unit on August 19, 2012.
At the Court of First Instance (2013-14), Theofilou was sentenced to twenty-five years of imprisonment for the charges of common complicity to homicide and the armed robbery of an Alpha Bank branch in Paros on August 10, 2012.
He was acquitted of direct perpetration of homicide, joint constitution of and participation in the Conspiracy Cells of Fire (CCoF), and possession of explosives and “war material.”At the Court of Appeal (2016-17), Theofilou was acquitted of all charges.
In 2018, Theofilou faced the danger of going back to prison due to an appeal lodged before the Supreme Civil and Penal Court of Greece by one of its deputy prosecutors against the decision of his acquittal.
The court rejected the appeal, and Theofilou was, definitively and irrevocably, acquitted of all charges.
Theofilou spent five years in the prisons of Domokos and Korydallos.
He was a member of the Network of Imprisoned Fighters and took part in a hunger strike (March 2 to April 10, 2015) with a series of demands against the most recent punitive turn of the Greek penal system.
A wide solidarity movement supported Theofilou all these years.
I know my regular readers know why it is that some debts can't be collected, or repaid.
Rise up, while you still can, dear reader.
