"Athens city center turned into a battlefield today(Feb,2008). Incidents started at 11:00 in Stadiou Street between police, protestors and supporters of extreme right and leftist parties that had organized rallies. Far-right supportrs members of “Chrisi Avgi” organization had originally planned a rally at Kolokotroni Square at 19:00 on Saturday to mark the “anniversary of Imia”. Extreme right wing supporters had gathered at Kolokotroni Square while other leftist groups had gathered at Klathmonos Sqare. At around 14:00 police clashed with left-wing, anti-establishment youths that had set up road blocks and cut off traffic on Panepistimiou Street."
http://evdomada.net/2008/02/03/violent-incidents-in-central-athens/
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kronosposeidonsays...What's going on? It's all Greek to me.
schmawysays...^must. not. downvote. bad. pun...
Antifas [anti-FAS, an-TI-fas] are a primarily European militant anti-fascist youth movement. They like to run around and break up Neo-Nazi gatherings and beat the members. I don't condone it outright, but have a hard time getting upset about it. They also take up their Molotov cocktails whenever the political Right is on the rise. In this case, I believe their primary grievance was the privatization of educational institutions in Greece.
From the dubious Wikipedia...
kulpimssays...*law *actionpack
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