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Mayor of Greek city hospitalized after mob attack
http://www.dw.com/ ^

Posted on 05/20/2018 5:00:28 AM PDT by BBell

The mayor of Greece’s second-largest city, Thessaloniki, was treated in hospital after he was beaten up by nationalist extremists. Mayor Boutaris had been at an event commemorating the killing of ethnic Greeks by Turks.

Boutaris was being escorted from an event that commemorated the massacre of Black Sea Greeks, when members of the crowd turned violent.

Footage showed the 75-year-old Thessaloniki mayor being heckled by dozens of people as he left the event on Saturday evening. Bottles were thrown at Boutaris, who is known for his strong anti-nationalist stance, before he fell down and was kicked and punched in the head and legs.

"They were hitting me everywhere. Kicks, punches, the lot," Boutaris told state agency ANA Sunday. "It was a despicable attack, but I am well."

Some attackers tried to smash the window's of Boutaris' car as he was driven away.

Praise for Turkish leader

A controversial figure in Greek politics, Boutaris has often upset nationalist hardliners with conciliatory statements about Macedonia and Turkey.

Boutaris once hailed the founder of the modern Turkish state Kemal Ataturk as a "great leader." He also made placatory statements about the use of the name Macedonia by Greece's northern neighbor, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Thessaloniki lies in the region of Macedonia and Thrace, and has been the site of clashes between nationalists and leftists in recent months.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: attack; europe; greece; greek; greekcity; mayor; mob
Nationalism seems to be running a bit higher in some of these countries that have been over run by refugees and asylum seekers. This should surprise no one.
1 posted on 05/20/2018 5:00:28 AM PDT by BBell
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2 posted on 05/20/2018 5:04:48 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Kemal Ataturk was a great leader for Turkey, by Muslim country standards. Erdogan needs an acute bout of pancreatitis.


3 posted on 05/20/2018 5:06:04 AM PDT by Fhios (Mr. Magoo or Rip Van Sessions?)
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Thessaloniki is not like Athens...further to the north and I would describe it as a different environment when compared to the island or Athens itself. Up until the late 1930s, this was a thriving area. They were set back probably thirty years when the Nazis arrived. Great location to land...rent a car...and just drive around for a week, with no worries about crime or anti-Americanism.


4 posted on 05/20/2018 5:10:00 AM PDT by pepsionice
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“Nationalism seems to be running a bit higher in some of these countries that have been over run by refugees and asylum seekers.”

If you want to protect your country you’re an ‘extremist’.


5 posted on 05/20/2018 5:11:44 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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I am amazed that Turkish military leaders didn’t take Erdogan out. He had so many of them killed. Seems they would have removed him first.


6 posted on 05/20/2018 5:13:56 AM PDT by boycott
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The fact that he got elected mayor must mean that Thessalonica is moonbat liberal, like San Francisco here.

The current Muslim invasion and the past Turkish massacres are sides of the same coin — Muslim aggression. The current invasion is more pressing now though.


7 posted on 05/20/2018 5:17:50 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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How many times over the past decade have Greeks voted for politicians to break ties with the EU and its banks and economic policies? It seems that every time the newly elected leaders sell out to the EU.

It's no different from in the US. We elect President Trump, and the (not so) Invisible Hand does everything it can to destroy his Presidency. Now, EU leaders are for all purposes telling countries they can't break away from their unelected monstrosity.

I don't see how this ends well unless more countries very quickly get leaders such as President Trump and the government of Hungary.

8 posted on 05/20/2018 5:20:58 AM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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video

https://www.rt.com/news/427234-greece-mayor-mob-attack/


9 posted on 05/20/2018 5:25:14 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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Ataturk’s legacy of a secular Western-leaning Turkey has been thoroughly subverted by the wildly Islamist Erdogan.

Ataturk banned the fez, converted written Turkish from Arabic script to the Latin alphabet, liberated women to wearing Western clothing, and most of all crushed the power of Islam to the extent of abolishing the Caliphate and later turning Hagia Sophia from a mosque into a museum

However, it’s hard for Greeks to celebrate Ataturk after he demolished Smyrna & expelled the Greeks from Asia Minor. And it was secular Turkey which occupies half of Cyprus to this day.

The nationalists should not be beating up an old man because he disagrees with them; they should be beating the hell out of the thousands of Muslim invaders that are infesting their country.


10 posted on 05/20/2018 6:28:58 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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All politicians should have a healthy fear of this sort of thing.


11 posted on 05/20/2018 6:49:46 AM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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Youtube video of attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih_GBQZUmCo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtdJsdaeVsA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oyR4MRHIBs


12 posted on 05/20/2018 7:18:40 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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Especially Democrats, activist judges and RINOS.


13 posted on 05/20/2018 7:26:57 AM PDT by JayElBee
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True. It’s closer to Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania than Athens.


14 posted on 05/20/2018 7:29:53 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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This is not nationalism.. to beat up a 75 year old man.. it’s thugocracy.


15 posted on 05/20/2018 7:51:51 AM PDT by momincombatboots (No Wall, No Way 2018)
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Yiannis Boutaris

“In his youth he was associated with the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Boutaris

Yup.


16 posted on 05/20/2018 7:55:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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