Thousands of protesters have attacked banks and shops in Athens and Greece's northern city of Thessaloniki, angered by the police's killing of a teenager.
Demonstrators threw petrol bombs, rocks and other objects at the buildings and at police, who responded with tear gas.
In Athens, many protesters have taken refuge in the Polytechnic university, protected by law from police intrusion.
The city centre is still strewn with glass after riots overnight triggered by the shooting in the Exarchia area.
Police said the first day of riots had left 24 police officers injured, one seriously, and 31 shops, nine banks and 25 cars damaged or burned.
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when the government becomes
Payqar 1 year 13 weeks ago
when the government becomes a controller but not a governor it should be halted.
Երբ կառավարությունը անցնում է իր չափն ու սահմանը կամ այսինքն սկսում է դառնալ իշխանություն, նրան պետք է սանձել: Այսօր Հունաստանում կատարվող դեպքերը դրա վառ ապացույցն են:
http://www.khosq.com/hy/article/2008/12/09/payqarorg_orenq_orenq_dardzri...
When Greeks say "NO", they mean it in spades
Mher 1 year 13 weeks ago
(The BBC's Malcolm Brabant looks at why student anger has erupted across Greece over Saturday's fatal police shooting of a teenage boy.)
When Greeks say "NO", they mean it in spades.
Rebellion is deeply embedded in the Greek psyche. The students and school children who are now laying siege to police stations and trying to bring down the government are undergoing a rite of passage.
They may be the iPod generation, but they are the inheritors of a tradition that goes back centuries, when nuns would rather hurl themselves to death from mountain convents than submit to the ravages of Greece's Turkish Ottoman invaders.
The centre for this December rebellion is the Athens Polytechnic, where students have been out on the streets with wheelbarrows and shopping trolleys to collect and recycle rocks and pieces of marble used in the previous night's assaults.
The polytechnic is the symbol of modern rebellion.
On 17 November 1973, tanks of the then six-year-old military dictatorship burst through the iron railings to suppress a student uprising against the colonels.
The exact casualty figure is still unknown to this day but it is believed that around 40 people were killed.
The sacrifice of the polytechnic was so significant that the post-junta architects of Greece's new constitution drafted the right of asylum, which bans the authorities from entering the grounds of schools and universities.
Although many of today's protestors were not born when the polytechnic gates were crushed by the tanks, the lesson of the students' martyrdom is a key component of every Greek child's school democracy curriculum.
The latent Greek contempt for the police, which has now erupted so volcanically, has its roots in the dictatorship, when the police were regarded as the colonels' enforcers and traitors to the people.
The death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos at the hands of an experienced 37-year-old policeman has precipitated a wave of nationwide violence unseen since the dictatorship.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7771628.stm
Officer charged with manslaughter
Bruce Tasker 1 year 13 weeks ago
It took riots, but today there is news that the officer who killed the teenager is to be charged with manslaughter and the PM will probably step down. The Armenian regime shoots and kills several peaceful Armenian opposition supporters and all their families can hope for is that John Prescott might make a statement at the EU.
9th December
Spoke too soon
Bruce Tasker 1 year 13 weeks ago
It turned out that the bullet from officer that shot the teenager never actually hit and killed him, it was a ricochet bullet which came from another unknown gun. Maybe Nikoyan should go to Greece to study the idiocracy of ricochet bullets?
Nikopapilogus in Armenia
Savatanem 1 year 13 weeks ago
I heard that Mr Nikopapilogus, head of the Greek investigations commission was in Yerevan a couple of days ago at the National assembly
Any ideas why and what's the
Կարեն Կարապետյան 1 year 13 weeks ago
Any ideas why and hat's wthe purpose of his visit at this particular time?
Tongue in Cheek
Savatanem 1 year 13 weeks ago
That's just a Tongue in Cheek way of saying the Greeks probably got their ideas from Nikoyan
a breakdown of State apparatus in Greece
Կարեն Կարապետյան 1 year 13 weeks ago
I spoke to friends of mine in Athens today (they're not anarchists or communists, just ordinary educated folk). What they've been telling me is that the coverage of the unfolding events across Greece in mainstream corporate media hardly captures the reality on the ground.
From what he's been telling me after 3-4 nights of rioting the general population, who were at first critical of the violent anarchist-led response, are now turning their oppinion in their favor. Ordinary people of a wide variety of political convictions are apparently taking to the streets in protests day and night. Friends, who are generally indifferent to political processes, said that even they may go to the protests.
What's more is that apparently police is nowhere to be seen in most parts of Athens as the govenment is trying to pull all its resources to cope with the hot-spots of resistance activity in Athens and other major cities across Greece.
Another romer has it that many policemen are refusing to attend to their duties or are just simply absent. Municipal and governmental services have not been running for the second consecutive day. As my friend put it: what we've got here is no less than a total breakdown of state apparatus, and it's becoming impossible to see how PM Karanmalis is going to deal with this situation that is getting out of hand by the hour.
If all this is not enough trouble for the crumbling neo-conservative governemnt, the Unions (which had postponed their action a few weeks ago) are now joining in and are announcing a General Strike that will shut down banks and offices and severely disrupt public transport and basic public services across the country.
This was now confirmed by BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7774634.stm
Genaral Strike: Not a single airplane took off from Greece
Կարեն Կարապետյան 1 year 13 weeks ago
From what I hear the General Strike is now in place. Not a single airplane took off from Greece yesterday.
Some more BBC links with videos about the General Strike:
Several thousand people have marched through the Greek capital Athens to protest at the government's economic policies, as part of a general strike.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7775065.stm
After days of violence, Greece is braced for further turmoil as unions stage a general strike in protest against the government's economic policies.
Flights in and out of Athens airport have been cancelled, and public transport has been badly disrupted.
The industrial action was planned weeks ago but follows days of riots sparked by the police shooting of a teenager.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7774634.stm
I'm sure their
nazarian 1 year 13 weeks ago
I'm sure their neo-conservatives are more liberal than the Democrats in the US. Sometimes I wonder why I support them. But when you look at the alternative, you realize there is not much choice.
I'm not so sure about the
Կարեն Կարապետյան 1 year 13 weeks ago
I'm not so sure about the Nea-Demokratia (the conservative party in Greece) being more liberal than the American Democrats. From my own experience, I'd say they're as bad as the neo-con Republicans when it comes to witch-hunt for immigrants, neo-liberalist economical policies, privatisation of pensions and stripping away whatever workers' rights that they possibly can without getting too bruised by the Unions and the proper Left (which constitutes a good 24% of the electorate, uncounting the anarchists, who don't vote at all).
A week on, protesters still
Կարեն Կարապետյան 1 year 13 weeks ago
A week on, protesters still on Greece's streets
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hBFlGGEp5P_Xn83Bw3PLwJ...