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December 08, 2008

Riots Continue In Greece

Geesh, what a mess

Fresh clashes have broken out between police and protesters in at least three Greek cities, after the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy by police.

About 300 students battled police in Thessaloniki, while protests turned violent in Trikala and Piraeus.

Five demonstrations are planned in major cities later, including a mass rally by the Communist Party in Athens, where Saturday's shooting occurred.

Two police officers have been arrested in connection with the boy's death.

One of them, who is accused of murder, said he fired a warning shot and that the boy was killed by a ricochet, but witnesses told Greek television that the officer aimed directly at the boy.

Anarchists have been looking for any excuse to riot and cause mayhem, and they are helped by Greece's constitution

Hundreds of students clashed with riot police in Greece's second biggest city of Thessaloniki in a third day of rioting on Monday.

Students at the city's Aristotle university spent the night holed up on campus stockpiling missiles and petrol bombs before taking to the streets, says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens.

He says they then retreated safe in the knowledge that they could not be followed as Greece's constitution strictly prevents the authorities from entering the grounds of schools, universities and polytechnics.

The Prime Minister is very weak, having only the slimmest of majorities in parliament, so expect the government to fall any day now.

Why wait for the seas to rise up and cover us when so many seem willing to submerge themselves?

Posted by Mr. Bingley at December 8, 2008 07:05 AM

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