Seventeen years after the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a police officer, Greek society does not forget the crime, neither the child who fell dead in Exarchia, the arbitrariness that armed the hand of the murderer Korkoneas, nor the wave of anger that flooded the streets throughout the whole country.
December 6th remains a deeply engraved wound, a living reminder that Democracy is not a given when state violence is reproduced in all kind of forms.
The pretrial detention of Nikos Romanos is also part of this dark context. State violence continues to be reproduced through mechanisms that treat specific people as “usual suspects”, regardless of proper evidence.
December 2008 marked a generation. Alexander became a symbol . The present state and future life of his friend, Nikos Romanos, is the actual question.
To this question, our answer will always be the same : against injustice, we stand !