A-Infos (en) Greese, APO, Land & Freedom -[Thessaloniki]Microphone rally against gender-based violence, trafficking rings and rape (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Saturday 7/02, 13:00 Hagia Sophia with Ermou -- GENDER VIOLENCE IS A 
REGIME AS LONG AS THE STATE AND CAPITALISM EXIST ---- In December 2025, 
two cases of extreme gender-based patriarchal violence, abuse, rape and 
human trafficking were made public in Thessaloniki. The first case 
concerns the rape and videotaping of a minor from the Philippines, while 
the second concerns the "disruption" of a trafficking ring that 
trafficked women from Latin American countries, from Colombia, Brazil, 
Venezuela and Paraguay, confirming once again that sexual exploitation 
is an organic part of social and economic normality.

These cases cannot be seen as separate from a long chain of incidents of 
gender-based violence that have been revealed in recent years and which 
reflect the increasingly harsh attack that women, especially those 
belonging to the lower social strata, are receiving with the onslaught 
of modern totalitarianism and the almost complete disintegration of 
societies. The rape and trafficking of the 12-year-old by Kolonos, the 
abuse and deportation of E. from Ilioupoli by cop Bouyoukos, as well as 
the rape of the 19-year-old inside the A.T. Omonia by Delta cops are not 
just crimes, but they brutally depict the way in which state 
institutions, the police and the judiciary not only fail to protect 
victims, but are often directly or indirectly involved in violence, 
either through cover-ups, impunity, or through the involvement of 
representatives in cases of rape, gender-based abuse and trafficking rings.

It is thus clear for the umpteenth time that gender-based violence 
cannot be understood as an exception or a deviation from the functioning 
of the system - on the contrary, it is a structural element of the state 
and capitalism, which are based on the maintenance of hierarchies of 
gender, age, race and class, in order to ensure the reproduction of 
relations of power and exploitation. Patriarchy functions as a mechanism 
of discipline and control, determining which bodies are considered 
expendable and which voices are condemned to silence.

It is no coincidence that those most affected by gender-based violence 
belong to the most vulnerable social groups. Children, migrants, 
refugees, undocumented women, the poor and socially excluded are in 
positions where dependency, precariousness and lack of social support 
make violence easier, more invisible and often unpunished. Childhood, 
migration and economic need are social conditions produced and 
reproduced by the system itself, in order to create bodies available for 
control, exploitation and abuse.

Trafficking, in particular, cannot be detached from the structures of 
the capitalist economy, as it presupposes the existence of borders, 
poverty, gender inequalities and coercion, in order to transform human 
life into a commodity and the need for survival into a field of profit. 
Sexual exploitation is but one of the most violent expressions of a 
system founded on inequality and hierarchy.

At the same time, it is obvious that any part of society that struggles 
against the state mechanisms and the system that dominates and nourishes 
the patriarchy, receives extreme and brutal violence from the state's 
minions with shocking examples, the beating of female activists at a 
mass march in defense of Palestine in Athens, the recent examples of 
unjustified and violent arrests in Thessaloniki after the anti-fascist 
rally on 31/01/2026 and many more examples that demonstrate the 
excessive repression that female activists suffer.

In the face of this condition, we refuse to remain silent, we refuse to 
accept the narrative of the state and justice, when the state structures 
themselves prove to be constantly complicit! In a world that insists on 
baptizing violence as "deviation", we know that violence against women 
is an organic rule of power and we choose to stand on the side of the 
victims, recognizing that only through collective, self-organized and 
anti-state struggles can patriarchal and capitalist power be truly 
challenged.

THE PATRIARCHY RAPES AND KILLS ON THE STREET AT WORK NEVER ALONE

STATE, MEDIA, JUDICIARY
ALL TOGETHER COVER THE PATRIARCHY

Free Women of the Collective for Social Anarchism - Black & Red member 
of the Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectives

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/2195-thes-niki-mikrofoniki-sygkentrosi-enantia-stin-emfyli-via-ta-kyklomata-trafficking-kai-tous-viasmoys
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