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Greek riot police prepare attack against prisoners

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 25 April 2007

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Athens - Riot police prepared to mount an attack on a high-security prison in central Greece after inmates refused to return to their cells and set fires in protest over prison abuses for the third straight day. Police surrounded a Malandrino prison in central Greece after some 150 inmates remained on the roof of the prison. Television reports showed many of them setting fires and carrying sticks and cement rocks.

The inmates are protesting
the beating of a prisoner and poor sanitary conditions in the jail, that includes no running water.

Prison authorities said the protest group included murderers and drug traffickers and that it was led by armed bank robber 29-year-old Yannis Dimitrakis, who allegedly had been beaten by prison guards.

Some 460 people are being held in Malandrino, which only has a capacity of 280 inmates.

On Tuesday, tensions also ran high at the top-security Korydallos prison in Athens that counts among its inmates members of the November 17 terrorist group, as prisoners set fire to bedsheets and mattresses in a show of support for prisoners protesting at the Malandrino prison.

Police reinforcements eventually restored order using teargas to prevent inmates from climbing outside the prison walls.

The prison rioting also spread to other high-security detention centres across Greece including the central city of Larissa, Trikala, the northern town of Komotini, Diavaton, the western port city of Patras and the Ionion island of Corfu.

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