A-Infos (en) Spaine, Regeneracion: Attack and Imminent Eviction of Prosfygika - Emergency Statement (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

During the summer of 2025, the regional government of Attica-whose 
capital is Athens-secretly began planning, through a prearranged 
agreement, the repression and eviction of the Prosfygika squatters' 
community on Alexandras Avenue in the city center. In early 2026, it 
launched a new phase of its plan, using articles paid for by government 
spokespeople to promote the violent eviction of the Prosfygika community 
over the next six months. As usual, a large amount of public money was 
allocated for this purpose.

This is the fourth attempt to evict and loot Prosfygika in the last 
decade. This time it appears to be the most serious, and its execution 
seems imminent. To this end, they have exploited all their propaganda 
resources, appealing to social conscience with a supposed project to 
create social housing and shelters for relatives of patients at St. 
Savvas Cancer Hospital. The plan to evict our community is financed with 
15 million euros of European funds from the ESPA Regional Attica 
2021-2027 program.

They won't succeed this time either!

Prosfygika is a community of more than 400 people-Greeks, refugees, and 
migrants-including 50 children, vulnerable social groups, people with 
serious mental health problems, cancer patients, the elderly, and others.

During the assembly's 16 years of operation, all drug sales and 
production points, including those dealing in hard drugs, which had 
previously plagued the neighborhood with the tacit approval of GADA-the 
Athens Police Headquarters-have been eliminated. Furthermore, 22 
autonomous, self-organized structures have been established for the 
residents of the community and the neighboring districts of Ambelokipi 
and Gkyzi.

Examples include:

- The Children's Center, the Self-Education Structure, and the 
Self-Managed Daycare Center, which operate daily with a comprehensive 
educational program for children in the Prosfygika community and the 
surrounding neighborhood, in direct collaboration with schools, parent 
associations, and teachers' unions in Ambelokipi, Attica, and throughout 
Greece.

- The Health Structure and the Social Pharmacy, which provide care to 
neighborhood residents in need, in collaboration with dozens of 
self-organized health structures, social clinics, and healthcare 
workers' unions across Greece.

- The Patient and Companion Reception Center at the St. Savvas Cancer 
Hospital, in collaboration with the hospital workers' union.

- The Berkin Elvan Community Bakery, which produces bread and baked 
goods daily for neighborhood residents and any Athenian who wishes to 
purchase them.

- The Technical Works Department for the maintenance of the Prosfygika 
buildings.

- The Community Cafe and Cinema for children and adults, which provides 
entertainment and contributes to the cultural development of 
neighborhood residents and Athens in general.

- The Community Center, which houses the library, reading room, and the 
weekly general assembly for community decision-making. Over the years, 
it has also hosted numerous social, political, and cultural events, 
presentations, and assemblies, both for the community and for other 
social groups and organizations.

-The Women's Structure, whose objective is the collectivization and 
empowerment of women and gender non-conforming individuals, the creation 
and dissemination of a culture opposed to the patriarchal system, and 
which also functions as an emergency shelter for women and gender 
non-conforming individuals who wish to use it.

-The Solidarity Team with the Homeless, located within the Community's 
facilities, provides food five days a week to dozens of people in 
central Athens.

The Community's structures are open to everyone and operate on the basis 
of self-organization and social solidarity.

Over the past year, the Community publicly announced its decision to 
carry out the exterior renovation of the Prosfygika buildings through 
self-financing and with the participation and support of architects, 
civil engineers, and other technical specialists. The regional 
government's plan is a response that seeks to preempt this social 
initiative.

This new attack by the Attica regional government is part of the 
Mitsotakis regime's central strategy to dismantle the largest social 
project currently existing in the urban fabric of Athens-and of all 
Greece in general-and one of the largest in Europe, which has attracted 
the attention and interest of universities and cultural and educational 
institutions in Greece and abroad.

Beyond its social character, the Prosfygika Community has been at the 
forefront of social, political, class-based, and internationalist 
struggles. The Community is also home to fighters from Greece, Europe, 
and revolutionary organizations from Turkey and Kurdistan. The 
Mitsotakis regime sees Prosfygika as a political opponent and is 
therefore trying to destroy it to gain political and economic advantage.

The supposed development of the neighborhood is a fallacy aimed at 
expelling the community and dismantling its models of social 
self-organization. It is clear that this is yet another pre-election 
ploy by a government in decline whose only banner is the doctrine of law 
and order.

They are lying when they claim that the regional government is concerned 
about social housing. Prosfygika already provides social housing for 
hundreds of people whom the crisis pushed onto the streets and the 
collapse of all social structures condemned to misery and 
marginalization. Their plan to leave over 400 people homeless in order 
to house only 50 who can afford it is the height of hypocrisy and 
inhumanity from a system concerned solely with its own profit and the 
plundering of public and European funds. It is a blatant excuse to 
dismantle existing social housing, while 80,000 empty apartments, owned 
by the City of Athens, remain vacant and unused in the city center.

They are lying when they claim that the regional government cares about 
the families of cancer patients, whom the Community has welcomed and 
cared for for years; people who, until now, slept in their cars for days 
or weeks while their loved ones received long-term treatments. The 
Community already provides healthy living conditions and support through 
its own work and resources. The regional government plans to leave the 
families of cancer patients on the street while establishing 
clientelistic relationships with people in need. At the same time, 
countless properties, owned by the State and the Church, stand empty 
just a few blocks from Prosfygika.

-They are lying when they claim the regional government is concerned 
about the neighborhood's social problems, when Prosfygika is an example 
of harmonious coexistence among people from all over the world: 27 
different nationalities, with their corresponding languages, cultures, 
and religions, live in the neighborhood. Adjacent to an OKANA 
unit-Organization for the Treatment of Drug Addiction-it is the only 
place without drug trafficking, since those who prey on the most 
vulnerable have been expelled. The only public safety problem in the 
area is the policies of the GADA-Attica's police headquarters-and the 
Ministry of the Interior, which periodically invade the neighborhood 
with tear gas-in the vicinity of two hospitals-to dismantle a 
self-organized community that promotes a different model of social 
equality and justice.

-They are lying when they claim to be concerned about the use of 
Prosfygika and the development of Ambelokipi. The redevelopment of 
Prosfygika will cause a dramatic increase in rents and the cost of 
living throughout the area, displacing dozens and hundreds of residents 
who cannot afford the rising prices. This situation will gradually 
affect all surrounding areas, altering the social fabric by displacing 
current residents in favor of the wealthier.

We call upon all people with conscience and empathy to join the 
Prosfygika Community against the plans to evict and plunder this 
historic neighborhood of resistance, self-organization, and refuge.

We call on you to mobilize and share our struggle in your neighborhoods, 
family and social circles, schools, unions, and workplaces to protect 
Prosfygika from the government's predatory and speculative plans.

A government that showed no concern for the lives of the 57 people who 
died in the Thessalian train crash. A government that has turned Greece 
into Europe's dumping ground. A government that has dismantled all 
social structures and public services, including health, education, 
housing, and culture. A government that let so many people die during 
COVID-19. A government that has driven farmers and the countryside in 
general into poverty. A government that has expelled half a million 
young people from the country over the last decade. A government whose 
plan for Prosfygika is beyond trust; its words are nothing but lies and 
misery.

The eviction and repression of Prosfygika will have incalculable 
consequences for the mental and physical health of dozens of children, 
elderly people, and patients in the community.

The eviction and repression of the Prosfygika neighborhood will also 
affect the movement and all ongoing struggles, since every liberated 
space lost represents a severe blow to the common fight against the 
exploitation and injustice suffered by almost all of society.

For our part, we have the responsibility and the duty to defend the 
homes we have selflessly cared for for years as if they were our own, 
keeping alive a national and architectural monument that state planning 
would have demolished to profit from its reconstruction. We have the 
responsibility and the duty to defend the people of our community, who 
would otherwise end up sleeping on the streets.

We publicly declare that we will not cede a single inch of land to the 
regime and its companies and that we will fight with all our strength to 
thwart their dirty plan, even with our lives. We have the historical and 
social duty to continue the struggle.

We will ensure that the enormous cost they are forcing us to bear to 
protect our neighborhood and community is even greater for the 
government and its agents.

IF WE FALL, WE WILL FALL ON THEIR HEADS.

We call upon:

- Individuals, collectives, unions, associations, and organizations to 
do everything possible to stop the repression and eviction of Prosfygika.

- Individuals, collectives, structures, and initiatives to join or come 
live in Prosfygika.

- To remain vigilant against possible provocations from the State and 
the police, who will try to divide and dismantle the Community and our 
common struggle.

PROSFYGIKA AGAINST MITSOTAKIS AND THEIR COMPANIES. PROSFYGIKA IS SOCIAL 
RESISTANCE, SELF-ORGANIZATION, EQUALITY, AND SOLIDARITY.

NOT A SINGLE EURO OF PUBLIC MONEY FOR THE REDEVELOPMENT OF PROSFYGIKA.

EVERYTHING FOR THE COMMUNITY, THROUGH SELF-FINANCING AND SELF-ORGANIZATION.

HANDS OFF PROSFYGIKA. WE WILL WIN OR WE WILL WIN.

We invite you to the Open Assembly in Solidarity with the Prosfygika 
Squat Community, for more detailed information about the situation and 
the defense plan for the neighborhood and the community.

Sunday, February 8, 2026, 5:00 PM, at the Prosfygika Squat Community 
Social Center, Degleri corner of Alexandras Avenue in Athens, Greece

Prosfygika Squat Assembly, Alexandras Avenue

Email: sykapro_squat@riseup.net

Blog: sykaprosquat.noblogs.org

Instagram: @sykapro

Twitter: @Prosfygika

https://regeneracionlibertaria.org/2026/02/03/ataque-y-desalojo-inminente-de-prosfygika/
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