Rioters clash with police in Athens during rally
Posted by admin in Finance Monday, 25 April 2011 01:35 25 Comments
Hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police across central Athens on Wednesday, smashing cars and hurling gasoline bombs during a nationwide labor protest against the government’s latest austerity measures. Police fired tear gas and flash grenades as the violence escalated outside parliament and spread to other parts of the capital. Youths wearing black masks and ski goggles used sledgehammers to smash paving stones and hurled the rubble at police. A central post office near parliament briefly caught fire as employees and bystanders ran for safety. The chaotic clashes were among the worst since the start of Greece’s financial crisis, which ignited the European debt crisis and has resulted in wage cuts and a spike in unemployment. In May, three people died in a bank torched by rioters. Wednesday’s violence eurpted after 20000 protesters marched to parliament during a general strike against a new round of labor reforms. The strike grounded flights, closed factories, disrupted hospitals and hit train and bus services. Crippled by high budget deficits and a mountain of debt, Greece was saved from bankruptcy in May by an international rescue loan package. In return, the Socialists slashed pensions and salaries, hiked taxes, raised retirement ages and eased restrictions on private sector layoffs Late Tuesday, the government won a key vote in parliament on new labor reforms that include deeper pay cuts, salary caps and involuntary staff transfers at state companies. The new …
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@Thompson91PL A co mają zamiast komuny? Obicinają im emerytury, wydłużają wiek emerytalny, żyją na skraju nędzy…to jest wolność? wolność jest jak za twoją pracę możesz godziwie żyć, a polsce ludzie głodują. Komuna obalona, nie zaprzeczam, ale swoboda obywatelska nie musi się wiązać z nędzą. Co będę gadał…wybierz którykolwiek kraj na zachód od nas i jedź…na wycieczkę. Zobaczysz co to życie a jak wrócisz to zobaczysz dopiero że polska to daleki wschód..
Grecy nie rozumieją jak żyło się w Polsce w czasach kiedy było wszystko na kartki!!!! nauczyli się żyć w dobrobycie i nie umieją się teraz odnaleźć. Mój brat wczoraj jechał z Patisi na Kalamaki 1,5 godziny taki było korek, bo wszystko strajkowało!!!!
@MarcinTL obyś się nie mylił
@BaumerPaulGefreiter the only thing we have to fight with are muslims and their expansion over major european countries…
Polska policja dała by rade
ΓΑΜΙΕΤΑΙ ΤΟ ΚΡΑΤΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟΙ ΠΟΥ ΤΟ ΕΞΥΠΗΡΕΤΟΥΝ
@ohisosialismo My, you really have a charming way with words, don’t you? Do you really think they carry weight? And who said I’m an American? But thank you, again, anyway, Mr. Mouth ; )
@ohisosialismo By the way, thank you for the compliments! Hehehehe!
@ohisosialismo My father died in Athens two years ago. Still waiting for TSAI to send us money. In the US, the mixed blood cunts would have had it to us within a week. When I go to an office in Greece, there is a line out the door of an office with six desks in it. There is only one guy at one desk who doesn’t look up. He answers the telephone and connects people to other phones at the empty desks. We try to settle local business, but people have family rivalries and don’t speak. It’s fucked up.
@lukian1 To Ty kurwa dajesz dupy! Gdyby Polacy byli jak ich opisujesz, to żył byś w czas komuny i cenzury. I weź się do roboty dzięki któremu bedziesz PKB zwiększał! PL!
@NaszaOjczyzna
GO FUCK YOURSELF SUBHUMAN. WE HAVE A HISTORY OF 5000. YOU ARE NOTHING. YOU ARE WHAT?
@geopan123
GO KILL YOURSELF AMERICAN SCUMBAG. FUCK OFF AND DIE SHITTY BLOOD MIXED CUNT.
GREECE IS ONLY FOR THE GREEKS.
greece is donbe..why? cuz greeks are fuckin lazy and there’s too hot in greece. who cares…? soon we all can buy a house there for summer holiday:)
Podziwiam Greków że potrafią walczyć jeśli PANSTWO robi ich w chuja. A w Polsce? Ludzie pozamykani w domach tuczą dupy i narzekają przed tv.
Szkoda że Polacy nie potrafią się uczyć na przykładzie innych..HEJ! GRECY!! U nas się miesięcznie zarabia tyle ile Wy macie zasiłku…na tydzień. Tylko jesteśmy tak przyzwyczajeni to dawania dupy że boimy się wyjść na ulicę.
@Tereferedutki no way….we have cryzis 50 year komunizm….we are strong people..heh
POLAND will be next…you will see
@animaonathens hate, violence is not the solution, you’ll lose… Gandhi and Martin Luther King style ftw. the elite only fear a global political awakening nothing else. They said it.
The corruption, fraud, tax evasion, inefficiency and laziness is endemic and deeply entrenched throughout Greek society. It is not only the government. It is the profoundly selfish people in Greece. It is tragic, and it is maddening to try to get ANYTHING done in Greece. But it is so easy for idiots to point fingers and shirk any complicity and personal responsibility and set things on fire instead. Did I hurt anyone’s feelings? Well, boo-hoo for you.
@BaumerPaulGefreiter local war is not possible anymore. Any war in Europe will trigger USA, Russia, China and especially middle east.
There will be a new war in Europe, something like WWI (1914-18). And that war will resolve our european problems (especially that of superfluous workforce and superfluous production capacity) as it did many times in our history. Let’s learn once more how to use a bayonnette, how to dig a trench and how to kill. I love Europe, I love Germans, French, Greek, Italians, Poles – all. But now we have no other choice…we will fight not out of hatress, but out of necessity..
Oh ….oh …is that communism thing not working out? I had no idea…
ΚΑΦΤΕ ΤΑ ΟΛΑ! ΤΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΑ ΓΡΑΦΕΙΑ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΕΣ ΑΣΦΑΛΙΣΤΙΚΕΣ ΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΙΚΑ ΤΜΗΜΑΤΑ! ΝΑ ΒΑΛΟΥΝΕ ΜΥΑΛΟ!
@ohisosialismo disrupting the traffic..mmm great point to stop fighting for an honored life . iron up your ass! γαμημενε βρωμοελληνα