COPWATCH.GR

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Citizen Journalism

We document and expose police violence by collecting, verifying, and archiving audiovisual material that can serve as evidence in public discourse and legal proceedings. Our work is highly collaborative—through participatory journalism/citizen journalism, we engage with our online and offline community, encouraging people to record incidents of police misconduct and share their material with us. We analyze and categorize this content to support legal cases, challenge official narratives, and provide crucial information to journalists and human rights organizations.

Education

We empower individuals and communities with the knowledge and tools they need to protect themselves and those around them. Through workshops and practical guides, we help people understand their legal rights and learn how to safely and effectively document police misconduct, contributing to the broader struggle for accountability and justice.

Culture

We connect with countercultures that align with our core values and create spaces of solidarity. We build relationships and shared languages through documentaries, comics, concerts, murals, and other artistic expressions. By intervening in the public sphere, we collaborate with filmmakers, comic artists, rappers, graffiti artists, photographers, and graphic designers to shape a cultural narrative that reinforces the fight for justice and accountability.

During the first three years of operation we concentrated in the collection, recording and reproduction of news regarding police violence and arbitrary action.

In this first phase we connected with communities and people affected from police violence and institutional racism. At the same time we interacted actively with our followers in social media.

During our second phase of operation we would like to continue the recording of incidents, without limiting ourselves to their mere reproduction. We want to devote more time to research, processing and production of our own content in this area. This may include journalistic investigations, data analysis, production of documentaries, educational workshops and material, printed publications etc.

We kindly ask you to support our work so that we can secure our operational expenses and the salaries of all those who will work to materialize our ideas and our vision.

We commit to

preserve our independence from state and private interests
continue to interact with the communities that suffer from police violence

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documentary

There's a war going on outside.

Γίνεται πόλεμος εκει έξω. Et dehors, une guerre est en cours.

Νίκος Σαμπάνης, Chris Kaba, Ibrahima Bah.

Athens, Paris, London.

Three metropoles

Three racist killings by police officers.

The Nikos Sabanis case

The Ibrahima Bah case

The Chris Kaba case

Nikos Sabanis, 18 years old, was killed by the Greek police on October 22, 2021 in Perama, in West Athens. Officers of the DIAS motorized unit pursued the stolen car, in which Nikos was a passenger, against clear orders from police headquarters no to engage in a car chase. After the vehicle was immobilized, the policemen fired 38 bullets. In the audio recordings of the chase, which have been released immediately after the killing, racist/romaphobic language was used by the policemen.

Ibrahima Bah, 19 years old, died during a traffic control in Villiers-le-Bel (95) in northern Paris. Eyewitnesses report that the police vehicle tried to ram the motorbike Ibrahima was riding. He was forced to make a dangerous manoeuvre, which resulted in him crashing into an adjacent pole and losing his life. A nearby camera seems to have captured the entire incident, however, till date the video has not been released to the public.

Chris Kaba, 24 years old, was killed on 5 September 2022 after being shot with a single shot in the head by a police officer in Streatham Hill, south London. The car, driven by Chris, had been flagged by an automatic number plate recognition camera as a vehicle linked to a firearms incident in the previous days. No firearms were found in the vehicle or at the scene, apart from those of the police.