Les gauchistes déclenchent à nouveau des vagues de violence en Grèce. Étonnament, quand le PASOK (PS grec) est au pouvoir, que les gens ont autant de soucis sociaux, de chômage, etc, car la crise est mondiale et date du choc pétrolier de 1973, ces mêmes mouvements gauchistes ne causent aucune émeute. Dès que Nea Demokratia, le parti de droite, est au pouvoir, c'est le déclenchement régulier de violences urbaines "spontanées," comme on le voit dans ces opérations de guérilla où tout un arsenal est rapidement disponible, comme on le voit avec les attentats à la bombe assez réguliers et toujours venant de ces groupes gauchistes..
Voyez le commanditaire, il ne se cache même pas : le Pasok attise le feu et accusant le gouvernement démocratiquement élu de tous les péchés d'Israël. Démocratie version socialiste. Enfin, avec l'internationale socialiste et le national-socialisme, quelle que soit la version, on sait où ça finit toujours par mener..
Ce qui est symptômatique de l'étendue de la pourriture morale de notre société, ce sont les commentaires des médias. Lundi matin au journal de 7h sur Europe 1, on expliquait brièvement que le jeune abattu par le policier appartenait à un groupe qui était occupé à agresser cette patrouille, lui balançant des cailloux. On a donc une agression bien claire, et une légitime défense. Et les parents du jeune bandit devraient se voir condamnés pour avoir si mal élevé leur enfant, et pour le laisser traîner tard la nuit en rue (ils n'écoutent donc jamais Johnny Halliday?)
Quelques heures plus tard, le parti politique gauchiste ayant appelé à la démission de tout le gouvernement - on se demande bien pourquoi - du coup, tous nos commentateurs et journalistes oublient le déclencheur et prennent fait et cause pour les émeutiers. Un peu comme en banlieue de Paris, lorsque 3 jeunes crapules se sont enfuis, poursuivis par la police, et se sont planqués dans un transformateur de rue. Montrant au passage que même la signalétique imagée, ils ne savent pas la lire, plus assidus à la guerre de rue, au pillage, aux agressions de petits vieux, à la démolition de voitures d'ouvriers, qu'aux études. Pourtant, ces délinquants verront toute la presse et tout le gratin politique s'émouvoir de leur triste sort. Jamais une larme pour les victimes, toujours pour les coupables. Voilà LA perversion qui pourrit notre société moderne.
Fresh Violence In Athens During Leftist Demo For Slain Pupil
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ATHENS (AFP)--Fresh violence broke out in Athens on Monday after a weekend of rioting, with youths smashing up stores on the sidelines of a leftist demo called to protest a teen pupil's fatal shooting by police.
The youths smashed shop windows and damaged the entrance of an Athens hotel during a demonstration called by leftists and unions to protest against the killing of 15-year-old pupil Alexis Grigoropoulos Saturday.
Another group of demonstrators has been cornered by police in a square near the Athens Polytechnic university, and are damaging neighboring shops, state television NET reported.
Two separate protests had been called for Monday evening by the leftist Syriza party and the KKE Communists.
Ahead of the demos, riot police fired tear gas and staged a baton charge to break up hundreds of youth demonstrators in central Athens in the latest day of troubles sparked by the shooting death of a 15-year boy.
A wave of violence has engulfed Greece for the past three days after the fatal shooting of Grigoropoulos by police on Saturday.
Two officers have been arrested over the killing.
Comme les "jeunes" des banlieues de France et de Navare, les pillards ravagent Athènes. La chienlit tient le haut du pavé, et l'intelligentsia, qui ne porte jamais aussi mal son nom, la soutient.
Looters rampage in Athens
http://iafrica2.iac.iafrica.com/pls/cms/iac.page?p_t1=2662&p_t2=6437&p_t3=0&p_t4=0&p_dynamic=YP&p_content_id=1367401&p_site_id=139
New student protests were planned on Tuesday after hundreds of youths looted stores and attacked hotels in Athens in a third day of nationwide rioting sparked by the fatal police shooting of a schoolboy.
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis called a cabinet crisis meeting as police fired volleys of tear gas in a bid to clear the centre of the Greek capital.
Karamanlis vowed to end the country's worst unrest in decades but a government spokesperson denied reports that the government planned to declare martial law despite fresh student protests planned on Tuesday.
Dozens injured
The unrest has left dozens injured and hundreds of buildings destroyed or badly damaged across the country. Greeks abroad also staged demonstrations in London, where five people were arrested, Berlin and Nicosia.
Ten people were treated in Athens hospitals for respiratory troubles caused by the blanket of tear gas over the city as the third day of battles for control of the streets went on into the night on Monday, a health ministry spokesperson said.
After the end of a demonstration by left-wing activists against the death of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, groups of youths spread out across the centre of the city.
Hooded and helmeted youths roamed the plush Kolonaki district, smashing stores near the Mexican embassy and British Council building before retreating. Protesters set fire to the lobby of the Hotel Athens Plaza on central Constitution Square.
Earlier, about 300 youths stoned riot police outside the Greek parliament and security forces confronted unrest in cities across Greece throughout the day.
In the northern city of Salonika, a policeman was wounded by a firebomb and hundreds of youths attacked cars and looted dozens of stores. The unrest also went on into the night in Greece's second biggest city.
Banks and shops attacked
There were also clashes in the central city of Trikala, where dozens of youths broke off from a student demonstration and attacked banks, shops and cars on the city's main square.
The unrest spread to the popular resort islands of Rhodes where police fired tear gas at protesting students and Crete where police buildings were pelted with stones.
Students have called their own rally in Athens on Tuesday to protest at the killing of the teenager during incidents with police on Saturday. A general strike on Wednesday, originally intended to protest against the government, could become a new focus of the unrest.
As despairing traders sifted through the wreckage left by weekend rioting, Karamanlis appeared on national television to denounce "the extremist elements who exploited the tragedy.
"The unacceptable and dangerous events cannot and will not be tolerated," said the conservative prime minister, whose popularity ratings have plummeted in recent months because of the state of the economy and a number of scandals.
'I apologise to the people'
At the end of the emergency cabinet meeting Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos defended police action against the riots saying it was intended to "protect human life and property."
"The state machinery has protected more things than those that were threatened ... it is there to protect human life and everything else, without threatening democracy," the minister said.
But he added: "I am not satisfied and I apologise to the people."
Several universities in Athens and Salonika were ordered closed and the education ministry said high schools would also remain closed on Tuesday in tribute to the slain boy.
Greek police have arrested two officers involved in the shooting of the teenager in the Athens district of Exarchia on Saturday.
Grigoropoulos was among youths who had allegedly thrown stones at a police car in the Exarchia district of Athens. One of the two officers left his vehicle to fire three times at the teenager, who was hit in the chest, witnesses said. He was confirmed dead in a nearby hospital.
Epaminondas Korkoneas (37) who allegedly fired the shots, and his patrol partner Vassilis Saraliotis (31) were both detained.
Exarchia is a rebellious neighbourhood in central Athens, which is widely known as an "anarchist stronghold".
In 1985 another 15-year-old, Michalis Kaltezas, was shot by a police officer, triggering violent clashes in Exarchia, which was also the scene of student protests in 1973, which led to the fall of the country's military dictatorship in 1974.
Greek protesters torch major Athens department store
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20081208/tpl-uk-greece-shooting-fires-sb-9e08e31.html
Yesterday, 06:26 pm
Reporting by Daniel Flynn
Protesters set fire to a major department store in central Athens and torched the city's giant Christmas tree outside parliament on Monday as anti-government protests worsened.
Thousands of protesters smashed the windows of banks and businesses, government ministries, and set fire to garbage containers, filling the air with acrid smoke in a third day of protests against the shooting of a 15-year-old on Saturday.
voiture de pompiers incendiée
belle réaction démocratique, merci le PASOK, merci nos médias qui présentent ça comme une révolte populaire...
Riots in Greece calm down, clashes continue in Athens
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081208/ts_afp/greeceprotestdemos_081208054848
Mon Dec 8, 12:48 am ET
ATHENS, (AFP) – Large-scale rioting across Greece calmed down early Monday, with the only incidents occurring in the downtown Exarchia district of Athens where police gunned down a 15-year-old boy sparking the original protests.
Small groups of youths continued to occupy campuses in central Athens near Exarchia, throwing stones and molotov cocktails at riot police to protest against the shooting Saturday of Andreas Grigoropoulos.
On Sunday, thousands of protesters battled police in central Athens, smashing the windows of shops and businesses with petrol bombs and forcing police to use tear gas to disperse rioters.
By late evening, large groups of students were occupying campuses in the centre of the capital and in the northern city of Salonika, with petrol bombs being hurled at Salonika police.
Around 200 demonstrators in south-western Patras set fire to garbage cans and set up barricades in the city centre, with a police officer in Patras hospitalised after being beaten up by a group of youths.
In north-western Ioannina, around 50 youths also hurled Molotov cocktails and rocks at banks and shops before being chased by riot police.
Thirteen police and six other persons were injured while some 20 demonstrators were arrested.
The two officers involved in Grigoropoulos' shooting were arrested by their bosses Sunday, with the city's Exarchia district police chief suspended.
(AP Photo/Eurokinissi)
Pauvre gosse laissé à lui-même.. Le dessin sur le pull que porte ce gamin en dit long. Quelle éducation! Et il faut croire les journalistes. Il est tout à fait "normal," voire "logique" que deux policiers (2) en patrouille dans le quartier de la fange gauchiste, où sans cesse on les provoque, on baffoue la loi, on les agresse, etc, vont avoir l'intention de tuer un gamin qui traîne innocement en rue à jouer à la marelle avec ses charmants petits copains à 21h alors que le soir est déjà tombé et que les frimas sont bien là. Il est logique aussi que les charmants habitants du coin, tous honorables comme de bien entendu, vont dire la vérité vraie sur ce qui s'est passé.
Des manifestants anti-gouvernement? Non, ils attaquent TOUT, détruisent TOUT, y compris les véhicules de pompier, les maisons des pauvres, les voitures des petits, TOUT. Ce sont des chacals. C'est l'anarchie. C'est ça que le parti socialiste grec, le PASOK, soutient de toutes ses forces, furieux d'avoir perdu les élections. A côté de ça, les quelques scandales de népotisme et de corruption, habituels dans tout le pourtour méditéranéen, font figure de gag façon "Bécassine fait de la politique."
Ici, des dizaines de milliers de citoyens se voient privés par cette racaille de leurs moyens de subsistance, de transport, d'habitation. Hopitaux, ambulances, voitures de pompiers, etc, tout ce qui est détruit nuira à la qualité de vie du citoyen. Voilà la vérité.
Protests continue in Athens student district after looters' rampage
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081209/wl_afp/greeceviolence_081209064700
by Catherine Boitard
ATHENS (AFP) – Tension continued Tuesday in Athens as demonstrators and police faced off in the student district after a night of urban violence, the third since the fatal police shooting of a schoolboy.
About 100 youths holed up in the polytechnic college near the national archaeological museum continued to badger the security forces, who countered with tear gas, a police source said.
But calm returned to the rest of the city centre, the scene until the small hours Tuesday of clashes, vandalism and looting of dozens of shops, banks and public buildings in an atmosphere rendered insufferable by tear gas.
Tension also dropped in Salonika to the north and the other cities hit by a wave of destruction and looting Monday night -- Patras in the Peloponnese, Larissa in the centre, Canee in Crete and Ioannina in the north west.
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis called a cabinet crisis meeting late Monday as police fired volleys of tear gas in a bid to clear the centre of the Greek capital.
Karamanlis vowed to end the country's worst unrest in decades but a government spokesman denied reports that the government planned to declare martial law despite fresh student protests planned Tuesday.
The unrest has left dozens injured and hundreds of buildings destroyed or badly damaged across the country. Greeks abroad also staged demonstrations in London, where five people were arrested, Berlin and Nicosia.
Ten people were treated in Athens hospitals for respiratory troubles caused by the blanket of tear gas over the city as the third day of battles for control of the streets went on into the night Monday, a health ministry spokesman said.
After the end of a demonstration by left-wing activists against the death of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, groups of youths spread out across the centre of the city.
Hooded and helmeted youths roamed the plush Kolonaki district, smashing stores near the Mexican embassy and British Council building before retreating. Protesters set fire to the lobby of the Hotel Athens Plaza on central Constitution Square.
In Salonika, a policeman was wounded by a firebomb and hundreds of youths attacked cars and looted dozens of stores. The unrest also went on into the night in Greece's second biggest city.
Students have called their own rally in Athens on Tuesday to protest at the killing of the teenager during incidents with police on Saturday. A general strike on Wednesday, originally intended to protest against the government, could become a new focus of the unrest.
As despairing traders sifted through the wreckage left by weekend rioting, Karamanlis appeared on national television to denounce "the extremist elements who exploited the tragedy.
"The unacceptable and dangerous events cannot and will not be tolerated," said the conservative prime minister, whose popularity ratings have plummeted in recent months because of the state of the economy and a number of scandals.
At the end of the emergency cabinet meeting Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos defended police action against the riots saying it was intended to "protect human life and property."
But he added: "I am not satisfied and I apologise to the people."
Several universities in Athens and Salonika were ordered closed and the education ministry said high schools would also remain closed on Tuesday in tribute to the slain boy.
Greek police have arrested two officers involved in the shooting of the teenager in the Athens district of Exarchia on Saturday.
Grigoropoulos was among youths who had allegedly thrown stones at a police car in the Exarchia district of Athens. One of the two officers left his vehicle to fire three times at the teenager, who was hit in the chest, witnesses said. He was confirmed dead in a nearby hospital.
Epaminondas Korkoneas, 37, who allegedly fired the shots, and his patrol partner Vassilis Saraliotis, 31, were both detained.
Exarchia is a rebellious neighbourhood in central Athens, which is widely known as an "anarchist stronghold".
In 1985 another 15-year-old, Michalis Kaltezas, was shot by a police officer, triggering violent clashes in Exarchia, which was also the scene of student protests in 1973, which led to the fall of the country's military dictatorship in 1974.
quel triste et scandaleuse idée, ce diaporama trouvé sur youtube utilise l'hymne national grec pour illustrer les attaques crapuleuses de la fange gauchiste (excusez le pléonasme). Puis des chants anars', ça c'est honnête, ça montre bien qui fait quoi. Car le chant national parle de cette liberté si chèrement conquise, sur l'occupant musulman qui faisait peser un joug sanglant depuis 4 siècles sur la Grèce. Comme si on pouvait comparer 4 siècles de dictature musulmane à la légitime volonté de l'État démocratique de voir la loi votée pour tous être aussi appliquée dans ce quartier de chienlit!! Non, il faut dire les choses telles qu'elles sont : nous sommes encore une fois confrontés à une insurrection gauchiste, à cette volonté infernale de vouloir prendre le pouvoir par la force contre le verdict des urnes, et à vouloir écraser les pays sous leurs diktats.
Police shooting sparks riots in Greece
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/07/europe/08greece.php
By Anthee Carassava
Published: December 7, 2008
[note de la rédaction : de braves petits gars, bien studieux, bien élevés..]
ATHENS: Militant youth mounted fresh attacks against the Greek police Sunday, marring at least two marches by demonstrators angered over the death of a teenager in a police shooting and destroying scores of shops, cars and businesses throughout the country.
The violence rattled Athens and Thessaloniki, the second-largest Greek city, where black-clad youths hurled gasoline bombs, rocks and clubs at the police, sending hundreds of bystanders and peaceful protestors to a scramble.
In Athens, riot police officers retaliated, firing several rounds of tear gas that cloaked the Greek capital in acrid gray smoke.
At least one apartment block was evacuated after masked youth torched a car dealership on the lower level and the ensuing flames licked up to the balconies of residents, the private television state Alpha reported.
Stylianos Volirakos, an Athens police spokesman said "dozens" of officers had been injured in their bid to seal off streets around the Athens Polytechic Institute, where scores of rioters erected makeshift barricades using blazing trash bins.
It remained unclear whether the authorities would move to storm the state university. "This is an order that can only come from high up," Volirakos said.
About 3,000 peaceful protestors managed to peel away from the Sunday riots, rallying outside the National Museum near the area where the 15-year-old was shot.
The riots, triggered late Saturday when a small group of youths attacked a police car in central Athens, sparked a spree of violence that ripped through the country.
"We've never seen anything like this," said a senior police official who requested anonymity because of his involvement in the investigation. "The tension is so thick you can almost cut it with a knife."
The circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting remained unclear.
A police statement issued early Sunday said the shooting had taken place when two officers were targeted by about 30 youths - many of them hurling stones - while patrolling the central district of Exarchia, an unruly haven for far-left youths, including anarchists.
Both officers left their car to confront the rioters, "firing three shots that resulted in the death of the minor," according to the statement.
Private Greek media and a Web site popular among leftist youths, www.indymedia.org, said the teenager had been shot in the chest and died while being transferred to a hospital.
Exarchia, a bohemian haunt favored by leftist intellectuals and artists, has long troubled Greece's security apparatus for drawing large crowds violent youth, including anarchists and extremists resisting police presence.
The district is a regular flash point of trouble between the police and leftist gangs.
Both officers involved in the Saturday shooting have been suspended and senior officials vowed "exemplary punishment" for anyone found responsible.
"It is inconceivable for there not to be punishment when a person, let alone a minor, loses their life," said Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos. "The loss of life," he told an urgent news conference on Sunday, "is something that is inconceivable in a democracy."
The deadly shooting sparked widespread riots, with hundreds of militant youth storming the streets of Athens within hours of the incident, hurling fire bombs, rocks and slabs of concrete at police officers who retaliated with tear gas.
Private television networks broke into scheduling programming, broadcasting violent images of street fights, the worse in recent years.
Black-clad youth were seen smashing storefronts, targeting banks, torching dozens of garbage containers and cars lined along the meandering streets of the main Athens commercial district.
Similar protests rattled Thessaloniki and a string of other Greek cities, including Chania on the island of Crete.
No casualties were reported, but the overnight riots left Athens and other major cities strewn with shattered glass, burnt appliances and a stinging stench of tear gas. At least six people were arrested for looting department stores and boutiques.
The authorities in Athens braced for heated protests at scheduled demonstrations.
Pavlopoulos tendered his resignation early Sunday but it was not accepted by the Greek Prime Minister. He called for restraint during those rallies.
"People have the right to protest and will do so, but while the pain and grief caused by the minor's death is understandable," he said, no outrage "can lead to the violence and destruction of private property that was witnessed."
Les politiciens au pouvoir, sous la pression médiatique et de l'opposition politique, s'en prennent donc aux policiers. Les seuls témoins non-policiers sont la racaille sévissant dans cette zone de non-droit bien connue. Ce sont donc des crapules qui vont être élevés au rang de témoins de moralité pour leur copain mort "dans l'exercice de ses fonctions de prédateur." Toute vie humaine perdue est une mort de trop. Pourquoi cependant faut-il s'en prendre à ceux qui ont pour difficile mission de défendre la société? Et pourquoi pas à ceux qui l'attaquent, à ceux qui laissent leurs gosses faire des conneries? Car on n'est pas à l'attaque dans un groupe anarchiste dès le premier soir, c'est un jeune déjà aguerrit à la guerre civile qui est mort, sinon il aurait cavalé dès le premier coup de semonce. Oui, on va encore laisser le problème subsister. Après tout, la Grèce étant dans la Communauté Européenne, les erreurs politiques qu'on voit en France ou Allemagne ou Belgique finiront bien par s'y retrouver, intégralement. Tant que le citoyen n'aura pas compris qu'il ne faut pas voter pour celui qui lui promet des lendemains qui chantent sans devoir se fatiguer..
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Battus aux élections démocratiques de 2007, qui ont vu la reconduction du gouvernement de droite, les gauchistes profitent des émeutes pour tenter de se refaire électoralement parlant...
L'opposition grecque appelle à des élections anticipées
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20081209/twl-grce-police-emeutes-opposition-1be00ca.html
Après trois nuits d'émeutes en Grèce, l'opposition appelle à des élections anticipées.
Le chef du Parti socialiste George Papandreou a estimé mardi que le gouvernement conservateur de Costas Karamanlis n'était plus à même de protéger la population des violences des émeutiers.
Voitures brûlées, vitrines brisées, magasins pillés, banques incendiées se comptaient par centaines mardi. Les violences ont touché une douzaine de villes dont Athènes et Thessalonique ainsi que la Crète ou encore Corfou.
Ces émeutes, les pires qu'ait connues la Grèce depuis des années, ont éclaté samedi soir après le décès d'Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 15 ans, dans le quartier athénien d'Exarchia.
Deux policiers disent avoir été pris pour cibles par une trentaine de jeunes et avoir alors tiré une grenade assourdissante et trois coups de semonce. Cependant, des témoins contredisent leur version, affirmant que l'un d'eux a sciemment visé les protestataires.
Les deux agents ont été arrêtés et inculpés, l'un de meurtre et l'autre de complicité.
Ecoles et universités sont fermées ce mardi, jour où doit être enterré Alexandros Grigoropoulos dans la banlieue d'Athènes. AP
ET APPELLENT AUX MANIFS...
Ce sont eux les commanditaires de toute cette anarchie, c'est limpide.
La Grèce sous tension avant les obsèques de l'adolescent tué par un policier
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/2/20081209/twl-la-grece-sous-tension-avant-les-obse-4bdc673.html
Catherine BOITARD
La Grèce se préparait mardi sous tension aux obsèques de l'adolescent tué par un policier samedi, qui font craindre une nouvelle flambée de violences urbaines malgré l'appel à l'unité de la nation lancé par le Premier ministre, Costas Caramanlis.
Alexis Grigoropoulos, 15 ans, dont la mort samedi sous les balles d'un policier a déclenché les violences, devait être enterré à 15h00 (13h00 GMT) à Palio Faliro, une banlieue de la capitale proche du grand port du Pirée où un millier de personnes avaient commencé à se rassembler en début d'après-midi.
La crise, qui a affaibli le gouvernement du Premier ministre conservateur et révèle un profond malaise de la jeunesse, prend de jour en jour une tournure plus politique, avec mardi un appel à la démission du gouvernement lancé par le leader de l'opposition socialiste, Georges Papandréou.
Dans tout le pays, les collèges et lycées sont restés fermés mardi en signe de deuil, sur décision du gouvernement.
A Athènes, de nouveaux incidents ont éclaté à la mi-journée, alors que s'achevait un défilé dans le centre-ville de milliers de lycéens et enseignants. Des manifestants ont lancé un cocktail Molotov et divers projectiles sur les forces de l'ordre, qui barraient l'accès au Parlement et ont ensuite repoussé la foule en tirant des gaz lacrymogènes.
A Salonique, la deuxième ville du pays, 2.000 manifestants ont eux aussi été repoussés à coup de gaz lacrymogènes par des policiers, auparavant visés par une pluie de projectiles.
D'autres manifestations étaient attendues dans la soirée, alors que la tension restait vive dans le quartier étudiant de la capitale.
Costas Caramanlis a lancé mardi matin un appel à l'unité de la nation et du monde politique contre les fauteurs de troubles.
"Le monde politique doit unanimement et catégoriquement condamner et isoler les auteurs des destructions. C'est notre devoir démocratique, c'est ce qu'exigent les citoyens, et c'est ce qu'impose notre devoir national", a-t-il affirmé, après une brève entrevue avec le chef de l'Etat, Carolos Papoulias.
Mais Georges Papandréou, qu'il a ensuite rencontré, a décliné la main tendue: il a réclamé la démission du gouvernement conservateur, réélu en septembre 2007, et la tenue d'élections.
M. Caramanlis devait aussi s'entretenir avec les dirigeants de l'opposition communiste, de la gauche radicale et de l'extrême-droite.
Dans sa première intervention lundi, il avait durci le ton, soulignant que les troubles "ne peuvent pas et ne seront pas tolérés".
Ces menaces n'ont pas empêché une troisième nuit de violences lundi soir dans les centres d'Athènes et Salonique, avec de nombreux magasins et banques vandalisés et des affrontements entre jeunes et forces de l'ordre, signe selon les observateurs d'un profond malaise et d'une radicalisation de la jeunesse grecque minée par l'insécurité économique, le chômage et les bas salaires.
Ces violences ont éclaté en marge de manifestations de protestation contre la bavure policière qui ont réuni plusieurs milliers de personnes à l'appel de la gauche parlementaire.
Cette explosion de colère met en difficulté le gouvernement de M. Caramanlis, déjà déstabilisé par une série de scandales et les retombées de la crise économique, et désormais devancé dans les sondages, pour la première fois depuis cinq ans, par le Pasok, le grand parti d'opposition socialiste.
L'incapacité des autorités à ramener le calme était soulignée mardi par la presse grecque, de droite comme de gauche, qui dénonçait un "vide de pouvoir" face à "l'anarchie".
Dès lundi soir, les médias audiovisuels avaient pointé l'inefficacité des forces de l'ordre, sur la défensive face aux manifestants, forçant le ministre de l'Intérieur, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, à monter au créneau pour défendre le travail de la police, qui a selon lui "fait tout le nécessaire pour protéger la vie humaine et la propriété".
Jusque dans le quartier chic de Kolonaki, les carcasses carbonisées de voitures, les alignements de vitrines brisées et les tas de poubelles fumants attestaient pourtant mardi matin du champ laissé à la rage des contestataires.
La police a annoncé avoir arrêté 87 personnes, des pillards pour la plupart, à Athènes et précisé que douze policiers avaient été blessés dans les affrontements avec les jeunes.
Les pompiers ont dû intervenir à 190 reprises et ont éteint des incendies dans une centaine de bâtiments et sur une vingtaine de 20 véhicules.
D'autres villes ont aussi été gagnées par les affrontements et vandalismes lundi soir, comme Patras, dans le Péloponnèse, Larissa, dans le centre, la Canée, en Crète et Ioannina (nord-ouest).
Le policier qui a tiré sur Alexis Grigoropoulos a été arrêté et inculpé d'"homicide volontaire", tandis que le collègue qui l'accompagnait était appréhendé pour "complicité".
Les anarchistes & marxistes ayant pour devise de faire du passé table rase, ils se sont donc aussi attaqués aux monuments historiques, ont tenté l'attaque de la bibliothèque nationale, etc. Les Talibans n'ont pas fait mieux en Afghanistan.
Last Farewell to Alexis at Noon
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New student protestation marches are taking place today Tuesday in Athens and prefectures a few hours before the funeral of 15 years old Alexandros Grigoropoulos who was shot on Exarchia, Tuesday night. The funeral of the unfortunate child will take place at 3.30. Police has taken extra security measures around Palaio Faliro cemetery, Nea Smyrni. The coroner's report is expected today. At 12.30 students, teachers and parents have scheduled rally in Propylaia while another two protestation marches have been scheduled in Thessaloniki. First march will start at 12.00 in Kamara by anti authority groups, while student unions have scheduled rally half an hour later starting in Venizelos Statue. Minister of Education Evripidis Stylianidis, announced that high schools will remain closed today. Primary Teachers Federation (DOE) announced a 24 hour strike protesting against the murder of the 15 years old. Greek universities remain closed while students unions are to hold general meetings.
Athens looks like a bombarded city today and the atmosphere is suffocating by tear gases police used yesterday. Metro, tram, bus routes are conducted normally. Patision Avenue is closed. At this moment, groups of anarchists are barricaded inside National Technical University of Athens.
Secret monumental sites were also targeted by the angry group that was destroying everything on their way yesterday. Kostis Palamas residence,in Akadimias and Sina St. was burnt while our cultural heritage, the National Library, was also under threat. Rector of University of Athens, Christos Kittas resigned yesterday protesting against the state and police's passivity that were incapable of protecting the country yesterday.
Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis, in his statements in NET TV channel asked from citizens not to move in the city center, if not necessary, and asked from the state to provide compensations to the citizens whose properties have been damaged.
66 people were arrested yesterday and will testify today to the Prosecutor for the unprecedented incidents taking place in Athens city center. The arrestees are being charged of causing damages, attacking police officers and looting shops. In total, 176 people were arrested. According to an announcement issued by police, the violent incidents started when 3 different protestations marches were divided and small groups spread in different places in the city center causing damages to buildings, cars, shops, attacking police forces using Molotov bombs, stones, marbles, woods, swords, knives and other objects they robbed after looting a gun shop in Omoneia.
Source:NET, NET 105,8, ANA, MNA
Thessaloniki riot: 'War zone here'
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Riot police quickly moved in on rioters in Thessaloniki
Days of rioting in towns across Greece has left dozens injured and hundreds of properties torched.
In Thessaloniki, Dimitrios Paraskevas describes how one of the demonstrations sparked by the death of a 15-year-old boy turned violent.
"It began peacefully and it was a huge demonstration. But it turned violent and a small minority went pillaging stores and breaking into public property.
The demonstration tried to move to the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace but because the police were heavily protecting that area, the rest of the city was left to the mercy of the looters.
Some people within the demonstration tried to prevent people from breaking in and pillaging shops but it was eventually too difficult.
Late on the rioters reached the Kamara area and then it became a warzone here. You could see fires everywhere, rubbish bins were burning, people were throwing molotov cocktail bombs.
The police responded with tear gas. I saw police shooting canisters all over the place, but it affected more ordinary demonstrators than rioters.
Then it started to become more violent and it continued until the early hours of the morning.
People operated with a mob mentality. They chanted: 'Cops, pigs, murderers.'
Today a scheduled demonstration is to begin at 12pm local time for the memory of Alexis, the boy who was shot. He is going to be buried today and I will be there to commemorate this. I will go in peace but most of the people are worried that it will turn violent.
Most people wanted this to be something that could change the sentiment of the state and the police. They wanted something good to be done. The rioting does not help.
The whole relationship between the police and society should be re-evaluated - this is what it is all about. People don't think the state belongs to them. They see it as an enemy.
Here in Thessaloniki, we are in a worse economic situation than Athens, unemployment here is higher, we have lost our base of production.
There is anger but ordinary people don't want to express it through violence."
NOUVELLES DU 10 décembre - c'était un accident!!!
Greek capital hit by major strike
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Thousands of people have marched through the Greek capital, Athens, for a one-day general strike in protest at 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.
Court sources have told news agencies that tests show that the bullet which killed the teenager was a ricochet.
The ballistics report has not yet been published, but defence lawyer Alexis Kougias told the Reuters news agency that an investigation showed it was a ricochet.
"In the end, this was an accident," he said.
In the wake of the killing, witnesses told Greek TV that police had fired directly at the teenager, fanning popular anger.
But the officer who fired the shot had said it was a ricochet from a warning shot, as the dead teenager had been among a group of youths who reportedly threw stones at a police car.
Union demands
Flight have been cancelled, banks and schools closed, and some hospital services are said to be restricted.
About 4,000-5,000 workers have been gathering in Constitution Square central Athens for a rally outside the Greek parliament, waving banners and shouting anti-government slogans.
Small groups of youths have been throwing rocks and petrol bombs at police near the square, and riot police have been responding with tear gas grenades.
The BBC's Athens correspondent Malcolm Brabant says this level of violence is easily tolerated by Greece's riot police.
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis had appealed to the unions to cancel a rally planned for central Athens.
The two main umbrella unions - the Greek General Confederation of Workers (GSEE) and the Civil Servants Supreme Administrative Council (ADEDY) - are demanding increased social spending in light of the global financial crisis, as well as higher wages and pensions.
They represent about 2.5 million workers - roughly half of the total Greek work force, according to Associated Press news agency.
"Participation in the strike is total, the country has come to a standstill," Stathis Anestis, spokesman for the GSEE, told the Reuters news agency.
The day is a litmus test of public mood, says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens, amid fears of further violence.
If the strike passes peacefully, the government of Mr Karamanlis will survive for another day, our correspondent says.
The strike comes after three consecutive days and nights of riots in which shops and offices were set alight and riot police battled groups of stone- and bottle-throwing youths.
However, Greek television reported that a group of about 100 Roma attacked a police station in the impoverished suburb of Zefyri, where they set a lorry on fire and tried unsuccessfully to push it into a station. In the port city of Patras, 215km (134 miles) west of Athens, a crowd of people, including shop-owners, are said to have turned on rioters and forced them to stop a wave of destruction, our correspondent says.
Entrepreneurs have been sleeping in their shops to defend them against rioters and looters.
The Athens Traders Association estimates that four days of rioting has caused 1bn euros ($1.3bn, £874m) worth of damage.
Several 24-hour strikes against the government's economic reform policies have brought the country to a standstill this year.
'Warning shot'
The riots were triggered by the death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos, shot by police in Athens on Saturday, and spread to a number of towns and cities across Greece.
Clashes erupted near the suburban Athens cemetery where his funeral was held on Tuesday.
Two police officers have been charged in connection with the teenager's death, and are due to appear before a public prosecutor on Wednesday.
The protesters' frustration has been fuelled by corruption scandals and poor economic prospects for many, our correspondent says.
Opposition Socialist leader George Papandreou has called for early elections, saying the government had lost the confidence of the people and could not handle the crisis.
Mr Karamanlis, whose conservative party has a parliamentary majority of just one seat, has called for unity and said rioters would not be shown any leniency.
The unrest was sparked by the fatal shooting of a teenager by police
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