Yikes! Greece!

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What the heck is happening in Greece...and why?

ATHENS, Greece – Rioters rampaged through Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki Sunday, hurling Molotov cocktails, burning stores and blocking city streets with flaming barricades after protests against the fatal police shooting of a teenager erupted into chaos. Youths wearing hoods smashed storefronts and cars in Athens. Riot police responded with tear gas while the fire department rushed to extinguish blazes. Several bank branches, stores and at least one building were on fire on a major street leading to the capital's police headquarters. Clashes also broke out near Parliament.

Streets quickly emptied as word of the violence spread. Local media reported several people sought treatment for breathing problems. Violence often breaks out during demonstrations in Greece between riot police and anarchists, who attack banks, high-end shops, diplomatic vehicles and foreign car dealerships in late-night fire-bombings that rarely cause injuries.

Pirates and anarchists. I guess I'd better put that cruise to the Greek Isles on hold....

 

[jeninflorida]

there was a report just issued, about Russia becoming a world power again, and countires becoming over taken by organized crime.

What the heck is happening in Greece...and why?


Pirates and anarchists. I guess I'd better put that cruise to the Greek Isles on hold....

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Modern Greek politics since WWII has been one damned, dumb thing after another. If it's not anarchists, it's military juntas. Just a good place to be . . . from!

 

[oggbashan]

But the islands just carry on business as usual ignoring the chaos in Greek cities.

With enough wine, women and song everything else seems far away, and if it isn't there's always dancing...

Og

 

[voluptuary_manque]

But the islands just carry on business as usual ignoring the chaos in Greek cities.

With enough wine, women and song everything else seems far away, and if it isn't there's always dancing...

Og

And isn't the chaos basically in Athens? It's only one city, after all, and a smoggy hole of a city at that.