{"id":2424,"date":"2018-10-08T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T10:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.khm.de\/sag\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2018-10-08T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T10:16:24","slug":"using-cctv-to-bring-down-fascists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/?p=2424","title":{"rendered":"Using CCTV to bring down fascists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Forensic Architecture team has release another masterful media investigation:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forensic-architecture.org\/case\/murder-pavlos-fyssas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THE MURDER OF PAVLOS FYSSAS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the quick summary. Full video linked below<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas (Short; English)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/290485066?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><script type=\"application\/json\" data-arve-oembed>{\n    \"type\": \"video\",\n    \"version\": \"1.0\",\n    \"provider_name\": \"Vimeo\",\n    \"provider_url\": \"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/\",\n    \"title\": \"The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas (Short; English)\",\n    \"author_name\": \"Forensic Architecture\",\n    \"author_url\": \"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/forensicarchitecture\",\n    \"is_plus\": \"0\",\n    \"account_type\": \"business\",\n    \"width\": 980,\n    \"height\": 551,\n    \"duration\": 261,\n    \"description\": \"Shortly after midnight on 18 September 2013, Pavlos Fyssas, a young Greek anti-fascist rapper, was murdered in his home neighbourhood of Keratsini, Athens. The killer and others who participated in the attack were members of the neo-Nazi organisation Golden Dawn. nnGolden Dawn have brutally attacked migrants and political opponents ever since their formation in the late \u201880s, with most of their crimes going unpunished through the silent support of the Greek police aligned to their nationalist cause. Following the murder of Fyssas, a Greek citizen, the government was finally forced to make a series of arrests. Sixty-nine members of Golden Dawn, including all of their fifteen parliamentarians, were brought to trial. Charges in the trial, relating to events as far back as 2008, allege that even while holding seats in the Greek parliament, Golden Dawn operated as a criminal organisation. Even as the ongoing trial threatens the existence of Golden Dawn as a political party, the Greek courts remain reluctant to investigate the role of the police in covering up these crimes. nnForensic Architecture was commissioned by the Fyssas family and their legal representatives to reconstruct the events of the night from the audio and video material made available to the court. The resulting video investigation and accompanying report, presented to the Athens courtroom on 10 and 11 September 2018, brings together CCTV footage, recordings of communications between police and emergency services, and witness testimony. We established a precise timeline and reconstruction of the events that led to the murder.nnThe investigation established that members of Golden Dawn, including senior officials, acted in a co-ordinated manner in relation to the murder, and that DIAS officers were present at the scene before, during and after the murder, and failed to intervene.\",\n    \"thumbnail_url\": \"https:\/\/i.vimeocdn.com\/video\/726377598-00fc1e9f76b6aa4c4fe45af3d7bb9a53a3f33554515d9f612a20a3644b06b389-d_960\",\n    \"thumbnail_width\": 960,\n    \"thumbnail_height\": 540,\n    \"thumbnail_url_with_play_button\": \"https:\/\/i.vimeocdn.com\/filter\/overlay?src0=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F726377598-00fc1e9f76b6aa4c4fe45af3d7bb9a53a3f33554515d9f612a20a3644b06b389-d_960&src1=http%3A%2F%2Ff.vimeocdn.com%2Fp%2Fimages%2Fcrawler_play.png\",\n    \"upload_date\": \"2018-09-18 09:50:30\",\n    \"video_id\": 290485066,\n    \"uri\": \"\/videos\/290485066\",\n    \"arve_iframe_src\": \"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/290485066?dnt=1&app_id=122963\",\n    \"arve_provider\": \"vimeo\",\n    \"arve_cachetime\": \"2024-06-06T19:29:30+02:00\",\n    \"arve_url\": \"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/290485066\",\n    \"arve_thumbnail_small\": \"https:\/\/i.vimeocdn.com\/video\/726377598-00fc1e9f76b6aa4c4fe45af3d7bb9a53a3f33554515d9f612a20a3644b06b389-d_320\",\n    \"arve_thumbnail_large\": \"https:\/\/i.vimeocdn.com\/video\/726377598-00fc1e9f76b6aa4c4fe45af3d7bb9a53a3f33554515d9f612a20a3644b06b389-d_1280\",\n    \"arve_srcset\": \"https:\/\/i.vimeocdn.com\/video\/726377598-00fc1e9f76b6aa4c4fe45af3d7bb9a53a3f33554515d9f612a20a3644b06b389-d_320 320w, https:\/\/i.vimeocdn.com\/video\/726377598-00fc1e9f76b6aa4c4fe45af3d7bb9a53a3f33554515d9f612a20a3644b06b389-d_640 640w, https:\/\/i.vimeocdn.com\/video\/726377598-00fc1e9f76b6aa4c4fe45af3d7bb9a53a3f33554515d9f612a20a3644b06b389-d_960 960w, https:\/\/i.vimeocdn.com\/video\/726377598-00fc1e9f76b6aa4c4fe45af3d7bb9a53a3f33554515d9f612a20a3644b06b389-d_1280 1280w\"\n}<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, members of the Greek Nazi movement &#8220;Golden Dawn&#8221; murdered the antifascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas on the streets of Athens, a murder that was covered up by members of the Greek police, known to be riddled with Golden Dawn infiltrators, and abetted by Members of Parliament from Golden Dawn.<\/p>\n<p>As the case works its way through the Greek courts, the University of London&#8217;s &#8220;Forensic Architecture&#8221; group has been called in to make sense of a welter of evidence about the crime and the cover-up, deploying their system of using &#8220;architectural techniques and technologies to investigate cases of state violence and violations of human rights around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The result is a <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/293623169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">37 minute video<\/a> that Talos on Metafilter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/176904\/The-architecture-of-a-Nazi-murder-exposed\">a masterpiece of analytic exposition and impressively recreates the events surrounding the murder based on available data sources<\/a> &#8212; it is.<\/p>\n<p>The Fyssas trial has the potential to bring down Golden Dawn, to bring its true nature as an organized crime group into the open, to eliminate it from the Greek Parliament and to trigger a purge of Nazi elements from the Greek police. It is nothing short of seismic.<\/p>\n<p>But even if you don&#8217;t care about any of that, this video is <em>remarkable<\/em>, a stitching-together of disparate and flawed evidence sources in a way that uses the strengths of one to overlap and fix the weaknesses of the other, creating a coherent and devastating story that is as well-told as any crime drama. It is truly virtuoso work.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the original audio and video material was without an accurate timestamp, and it became apparent that attempts by the Greek police investigators to address this problem were insufficient. As a result, our researchers had to assess the material from scratch, and deduce the correct time and location of each piece of footage.<\/p>\n<p>Audio recordings were assembled into a timed sequence through a process of sound analysis. CCTV footage from various locations around the scene was synchronised and given an accurate timestamp by reference to the sequence of audio recordings.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/10\/07\/agcab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forensic Architecture team has release another masterful media investigation:\u00a0THE MURDER OF PAVLOS FYSSAS Here&#8217;s the quick summary. 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