Activists from Yabasta Bologna opened a banner in Bologna at Làbas in solidarity with refugees at Lavrio Camp after Greek police attacked them. Yabasta and Munici Sociali Làbas and TPO also wrote a statement.

The activists said: "Lavrio camp is one of the oldest refugee camps in Greece. Built in the 1960s for Cold War refugees from the Soviet Union, it began to host mainly political refugees from Turkey in the 1980s. Since then, Lavrio has been known as the Kurdish refugees camp. Refugees are especially from areas of Rojava.

Since 2017, when the Syriza government withdrew state support for the camp, Lavrio has become a sort of self-managed camp, financed by private donations, including from the Kurdish Red Crescent (Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê). The camp administration functioned on the principle of democratic confederalism, through various committees for safety, cleanliness, health, women, youth and administration."

The statement continued: "When precarious lives create their places, building resistant, autonomous and free forms of coexistence, they start to be afraid. They constitute a threat which, with strength and dignity, opposes that (dis)human violence which seeks to reduce them to invisible, exploitable, drownable numbers or bodies. This is why the Lavrio camp was violently cleared yesterday morning by hundreds of Greek police. Because in this fragmented and increasingly blatantly supremacist Europe, governments, border authorities and police no longer have qualms about affirming an increasingly violent and radical state racism.

For us, however, the self-organization of resistant life forms has no borders. Solidarity with the brothers and sisters of the Lavrio camp."