Riots rock Greece
REUTERS
09-Dec-2008 (4 comments)

ATHENS (Reuters) – Riot police battled protesters outside Greece's parliament and in Athens suburbs on Tuesday while opposition socialists called for the conservative government to quit to end the worst civil unrest in decades.

Rows of riot police squared off with demonstrators for more than an hour outside the parliament building before firing teargas to disperse the crowd in fresh violence triggered by the shooting of a 15-year-old boy by police.

Bands of young protesters regrouped and threw stones at police, chanting: "Let parliament burn!"

On the fourth day of violence, protests spread to the Athens suburbs after the funeral of the boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, whose killing on Saturday triggered Greece's worst riots in decades, fanned by discontent over government and a slowing economy.

More than 5,000 people clad in black gathered at the cemetery, many chanting: "Cops, Pigs, Murderers." As the boy's flower-covered white coffin was being buried, protesters clashed with police outside and one officer fired shots in the air to disperse an angry crowd.

His killing touched a raw nerve among young Greeks, outraged at years of political scandals and rising levels of poverty and unemployment, worse... >>>

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Farhad Kashani

yes, I would call the IRI

by Farhad Kashani on Fri Dec 12, 2008 05:37 AM PST

yes, I would call the IRI police THUGS cause they are!! The Greek police doesn't arrest people for wearing a Tshirt not sanctioned by the governments religious ideology, they don't beat up Greek girls in the street because they are not wearing "hijab, they do not push students down from balcony for asking for freedom, they do not arrest their people for listening to music, so yes, the IRI regime and its followers are ALL ...THUGS.
Greek riot news.


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MeyBokhor_Manbarbesuzan

Double standards are double good !!!

by MeyBokhor_Manbarbesuzan on Thu Dec 11, 2008 01:06 AM PST

Thugs are the ones who killed the 15 year old boy.

Anarkists are just taking advantage of the situation that the incompetent Greek government has created.

If this had happened in Iran, you would have called the police thugs.

Such is the simplified bubble of a world you live in.


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Farhad Kashani

Obviously, and clearly,

by Farhad Kashani on Wed Dec 10, 2008 05:52 PM PST

Obviously, and clearly, you're the one stuck in history and a circle of obsession with Israel. Anyone changes the subject from "Greece riots" to"Israel" has some serious issues to deal with.


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..Israeli Crimes Against Humanity: because they are merciful !

by babababai22 (not verified) on Wed Dec 10, 2008 06:21 AM PST

... and your logic in YOUR title of your posts is starting to wear out. May be you need to read some new books and get new ideas! There are books that came out after old and new testaments were written, you know FK. Also more facts became available after WWII ended! The world has matured and learned beyond those old stories. 


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