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What’s Up in Greece on Dec 6?
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix
A sad commemoration day is up today, the Alexis Grigoropoulos Day, three years after his fatal shooting by a police man. School and university students and teachers organize marches to commemorate the death of the 15-year-old teenager three years ago. Students march starts in downtown Athens at 12 noon, while the anti-authoritarian movement plans its march at 6 pm. Greek police is on alert and the Metro station <Panepistimio> and <Syntagma> will close at 5 pm and 6 pm respectively out of fear for riots. Greek media report that 5,000 policemen will be deployed in downtown Athens today.
Greek Communist Party union PAME will launch protest actions across the country to oppose the emergency property tax.
The ‘emergency property tax’ via electricity bills has thousands of Greek households economically bleeding. Unable to cope with cutting its own expenditures the state sees ‘extra taxes’ as the only means for its own survival.
Greece recorded a minus of 13.3% in the revenues of November. Instead of planned €6.5 billion taxpayers could pay only €3.5 billion. Herewith, the budget deficit of 2011 ‘flirts’ with a 10%, while the target was 9%. Will Greeks be willing to pay 8.3 billion euro in December so that the 9% target will be met? Hardly…
The European Union and the Euro Zone suffered a Doomsday last night, after the downgrade rampage by rating agency Standard & Poor’s. Greece escape the S&P list for one reason: It had already reacher the Junk-bottom. S&P’s attack referred to countries with AAA rating.
Greece seems to react to Merkel-Sarkozy plans of new Europe Treaty. Some Greek media claim, that PM Papademos opposes the idea of a two-class EU.
Crime records a dramatic increase. Seven robberies occurred in Athens and Piraeus areas only last night. The ultra-violent criminal acts not seldom end with the death of the victim. Even if it is just for a couple of euro. Within one month police in Thessaloniki, police caught 228 people on crimes like robbery, stealing of cars, drugs, human trafficking.
A pedophile teacher has been arrested a couple of days ago in Rethymnon, Crete. Nikos Seiragakis, 47, teacher and basketball trainer, apparently has molested some 80 boys, many of them contacted through Facebook. The monster claimed that all the cases occurred with the children’s consent and that his aim was to make the boys ’tough’ for the challenges in life. His wife visited him at the cell and urged him to sign their divorce papers.
Ex-PM George Papandreou’s party PASOK is in uproar as some party officials ask replacement of Papandreou in party’s leadership.
Athens Stock Exchange joined the crowd after the S&P attack. At 12:12 pm the General Index is at 684.79 units and -1.20%.
Agios Nikolaos Day today, do not forget to wish to all your friends named <Nikos>.
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