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Daily Archives: June 18th, 2012

Riots break out in Ano Liosia, NW Athens

The district of Ano Liosia, in NW Athens, has a large Roma population; the community’s relationship with the police has often been tense: last year, a DIAS motorcycle policeman ran over and killed a 6-year old Roma girl. On Sunday, one DIAS policeman died and another was seriously injured after crashing into a van driven [...]

Responsibility claim for the burnt ballot box in Exarcheia

Greek original Responsibility claim for the burnt ballot box in Exarcheia, Athens on the night of the election of June 17th, 2012. Everything around us seems to unwind in coercive binaries: memorandum/anti-memorandum, drachma/euro, fascism/anti-fascism. Perhaps even among our ranks it is necessary to take a position, to take a stance in this liminal conjuncture. Yet [...]

Wave of anti-migrant Nazi attacks in the hours after election results

On the night of an election that handed them 7% of the vote, the Nazis of Golden Dawn attacked in a number of places in Athens, as well as in other cities across Greece: At the port city of Piraeus, around 80-100 members of the Nazi gang attacked a gathering of SYRIZA, beating up one [...]