Raging youth wearing hoods throw stones, molotov fire bombs against riot policemen. Armed with metal and wooden sticks, they break windows of shops and banks, set garbage bins on fire. Within minutes, the area near the American Embassy in the centre of Athens turns into a “battle-field”. The Commemoration March of the Polytechnic Students’ Uprising in 1973 is blackened – again.
The first signs of riots to outbreak came earlier in the afternoon when the furious juveniles hurled Molotov cocktails, stones and eggs against riot policemen near the Greek Parliament. The police fired tear gas.
Video:Tear Gas at Irodou Attikou Str.
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The “hoodies” set also the guards’ outpost outside the embassy of the European Union on fire.
Video: from the march
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There was tension also among students’ organisations, as to who will carry the bloody flag from the 1973-Uprising.
Video: students carry the flag, sing the National Anthem & Chant “Bread – Education – Freedom”
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7,000 policemen went on alert on Thursday. So far there have been about 60 “preventive detentions”. But riots could not be prevented…
Thousands students, workers, former prisoners of junta and left political parties joined the commemoration march. This year the government remained away form the commemoration festivities.
The new prime Minister Lucas Papademos delivered a speech about the youth and hold a minute of silence for the fallen during the Uprising. There were only a few deputies at the Parliament.
Maybe for an obvious reason?… Greek comedian Lakis Lazopoulos said last Tuesday at the broadcast of his weekly “Al Tsantiri News“: “Now we see those who were inside the Polytechnic in 1973 [PASOK] to form a coalition government with those who were outside [LAOS]”.
PS Really, how does it feel?…
Blackened? Your country has been formally taken over by the European banker cartel, and you’re upset that someone is fighting back?
why on such a day?
Fighting against a fascist takeover seems appropriate on the anniversary of the start of a fight against a fascist takeover.