Category Archives: Greece

Excerpts of depressing Swiss documentary on the state of Europe today.

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Hermes watched the whole 55 minute documentary for us and translated about 7 minutes of it which we titled and posted here. Here is a link to the whole documentary for anyone who would like to see it all (in German) and although the idea was to only include the translated bits, there was a short segment showing Greece’s Golden Dawn that, while not translated or subtitled, I couldn’t resist including as it pretty much settles any dispute about their ideological roots.

Thank you Hermes and Gates of Vienna for all the work involved in this.

Violent ‘anti-austerity’ clashes in Greece. Again.

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BBC:

 

Petrol bombs thrown by protesters explode near riot police on Syntagma Square

Greek police have fired tear gas to disperse anarchists throwing petrol bombs near parliament in Athens.

Dozens were arrested during the one-day strike against planned spending cuts of 11.5bn euros ($15bn; £9bn).

It was the first union-led action since a conservative-led coalition came to power in June.

The savings are a pre-condition to Greece receiving its next tranche of bailout funds, without which the country could face bankruptcy in weeks.

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Martin sent us this (these) videos.

Watch closely to see fiery missiles being thrown onto police

2 Afghan men sentenced to life in prison for Greece stabbings that sparked anti-immigration riots

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How long till Muslims riot to get their release?

FOX:

Published September 25, 2012

Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece –  A Greek court has sentenced two Afghan men to life in prison over the fatal stabbing and robbery of a Greek man that sparked extensive anti-immigrant riots in central Athens.

The court on Tuesday convicted Harodi Han Mamad and Shirzad Neinatullah of the murder of 44-year-old Manolis Kantaris on May 10, 2010, and of stealing his video camera as he was preparing to drive his pregnant wife to hospital to give birth.

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Muslims in Greece riot a lot.

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I dunno, is this even news anymore? I mean especially in Greece.

H/T Martin

Sept 23 2012

Some pre riot arselifting. Can’t riot, attack people, burn stuff down and demand genocide of the Jews with any chance of a hemorrhoid attack now can we?

Related article, also H/T Martin

Digital Journal:

Athens– As Islamists rioted on the streets of Athens on Sunday afternoon in protest against the film “Innocence of Muslims”, Muslim prisoners in Korydallos Prison, Athens, went on the rampage.

Muslim prison inmates in Korydallos Prison showed solidarity with their fellow Islamists rioting on the streets of Athens, by staging their own prison riot.

To Vima reported the riot broke out on the wings which held mainly foreign prisoners during Sunday afternoon: by the evening the situation was uncontrollable.

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Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/333436#ixzz27RcsGlX3

Anti-Immigrant Sentiment In Greece Is Growing Steadily Worse

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Business Insider:

Golden Dawn has been in the news before, most notably when one of its representatives repeatedly slapped a female opposition party representative on live TV after throwing water in the face of another female opponent a moment earlier. Now, they are in the news again, this time for attacks by their supporters on military bases where immigrants, who have been arrested and detained by the government under the Xenios Zeus program, are being held, according to the Greek Reporter.

The news highlights one worrying trend in Greece — In the past year, Greece’s Golden Dawn party’s rise in popularity, along with a rise in violence against immigrants, have followed each other step by step. The stories about violence against immigrants are alarming, sometimes gruesome, and growing in number.

With a five year long recession only being exacerbated by austerity measures, resentment against the rest of Europe (especially Germany) has been accompanied by resentment against immigrants, who are portrayed as taking the resources, jobs, and opportunity meant for Greeks. The Golden Dawn party has capitalized on this phenomena, surpassing the 3% threshold in Greece’s Parliamentary elections needed for representation.

Migration: More racist incidents in Greece

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An original translation by Michael Laudahn

NZZ.CH

In Greece, assaults with a racist background are on the rise. Human-rights organisations report at least 200 incidents during the past two months. 

In Greece, racist assaults are on the rise. During the recent case, an egyptian was dragged with a car through the streets of the town of Nea Manolada, on the Peleponnes. 

After a dispute, two men clamped the egyptian’s head in their car’s side window, then dragged the man almost 1 km through the streets. On monday, police confirmed the incident which occurred last saturday, and talked about a racist background. 

Eye witnesses alarmed police and called an ambulance. According to local media, the 22-year old migrant is no longer in critical condition. Police arrested one greek as the presumed perpetrator,  Another man is still wanted. 

In recent days in Greece, many assaults have occurred based on a racist background. In Athens, an iraqi migrant was battered to death by men in black. 

There were more incidents in the streets, arson attacks were carried out against apartments and accommodations of migrants. Human-rights organizations reported that during the last two months, there were at least 200 attacks with a racist background. 

This country at the south-eastern external EU border has for quite a while been the drop-in centre for migrants from mostly Asia and Africa. In the last ten years, more than one million people looked for shelter there. Extreme right-wing parties and groups make racist and anti-foreigner propaganda.

At the June 17th elections, the extreme right-wing and racist party ‘Golden Dawn’ managed to enter parliament, receiving almost seven percent of the votes, equalling 18 deputies. 


Golden Dawn protests migrants’ detention at Corinth army camp

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EKATHIMERINI

An MP and dozens of supporters of neofascist Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) have attempted to prevent police from detaining some 400 immigrants in the grounds of an army camp in Corinth, west of Athens.

Officers escorted the migrants to the camp after an early morning operation that was part of the Xenios Zeus campaign to tackle illegal immigration. Almost 11,000 migrants have been detained since the clampdown began earlier this month, leading to nearly 2,000 arrests.

Golden Dawn MP Efstathios Boukouras and dozens of the party’s supporters protested the transfer of the detained migrants to the camp, which is active.

In a statement, the ultranationalist party said it opposed military facilities being turned into “tourism centers for illegal immigrants.”

Local mayor Alekos Pnevmatikos has called a meeting of the municipal council on Thursday evening to discuss the matter. There were unconfirmed reports that Corinth Municipality cut off the camp’s water supply and is refusing to collect its garbage.

 

 

Mayors warn of racist gangs

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All of this was so unbelievably predictable and could have been so easily prevented. It still can in Canada, but it wont be. We will likely follow the same course.

From this Greek Source:

The mayors of Athens and a town in northeastern Greece where Muslims and Christians have lived peacefully for many years warned Thursday that their communities had to stand up to extremist thugs who have been targeting minorities and immigrants.

“When fellow human beings are being stabbed on an almost daily basis, society has to be alert and the state has to lead the perpetrators to justice,” said Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis.

An Iraqi man was stabbed to death in the capital last weekend in a suspected racist attack. The Migrant Workers’ Union claims that more than 500 immigrants have been injured in racially motivated attacks over the last six months.

“The rule of law is the only guarantee to exit this crisis of violence, which is prompted by the large number of illegal migrants entering the country and the attempts of motorcycle-riding fascist gangs to take the law into their own hands,” said Kaminis.

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