Koukaki squatters say police targeted ‘random individuals’ in raid

The events that transpired during a riot police raid in the district of Koukaki on Wednesday morning to clear a squat were further blurred on Thursday after people claiming to be the occupants of the building targeted said the family members who were eventually arrested had nothing to do with their squat.

In a declaration posted on an anti-establishment website on Thursday, the group calling themselves Community of Koukaki squatters said that when officers realized the squatters had fled the building on 45 Matrozou Street, they "targeted the first house they found in front of them."

"And because they couldn't find them [the squatters] they had to make them up to targeting random individuals," the group, whose identity has not been verified, added.

The squatters admitted to hurling "furniture, electrical appliances, stones and fire extinguishers" against the...

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