Posted on 12/12/2008 3:44:20 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Greece has issued an international appeal for more tear gas after supplies ran low because police fired so much of it during a week of violent protests across the country.
Officers released 4,600 capsules of tear gas during confrontations in Athens and nearly a dozen other cities since riots erupted over the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old schoolboy by a policeman last Saturday.
The greek government is urgently seeking fresh supplies of tear gas from Israel and Germany, the police said.
Yesterday, a report disputed claims by lawyers for the policeman accused of killing Alexandros Grigoropoulos that the bullet hit the boy after ricocheting.
The Kathimerini newspaper said that the results of forensic tests on the bullet indicated that it had been fired directly at the teenager.
Athens Bar Association condemned the policeman's lawyer, Alexis Kougias, for "desecrating the dead" by claiming that the 15-year-old had been a troublemaker.
The claims "constitute a moral murder which fuel tensions", the association said.
Yesterday, heavy rain helped to curtail demonstrations compared to the intensity of recent days but still students and Left-wing activists again hurled petrol bombs and stones at police outside Greece's national parliament building in the seventh consecutive day of violence.
A group of around 80 students peacefully occupied a radio station in Athens, reading a statement over the air and playing music, as many Greeks expressed their frustration with the dire political and economic situation.
"It was one of the most intense protests we've had in Greece, but today it could be the last day. I'm afraid it will be forgotten, like everything has been in the past," said Fani Stathoulopoulou, 25. "Politicians didn't react as they should."
Greece's socialist opposition has stepped up calls for the prime minister to call new elections, amid the
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They can use bullets or horses or water cannons, but I wouldn't sell them a single tear gas canister to control their population.
Uhmmm... that's what tear gas does, genius.
*squak* out of tear gas *squak* switching to buckshot....
What's wrong with bullets?
Ahem...don't ya just love what they leave OUT?
Should read "riots erupted over the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old schoolboy WHO HAD HURLED A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL AT POLICE"
In other words this poor "schoolboy" was just a terrorist pawn of the Communists. Why doesn't the Greek PM blame THEM for his death and arrest its leaders?
Live ammo ensures that whenever a protester is hit with it... they cannot protest again for a good long time (if ever).
He wasn't poor either, he went to one of the most famous, expensive and prestigious private schools in Greece, Scholi Moraiti/Moraitis School, located in of the most riches areas of Athens the suburb of Psychiko formerly the neighborhood of a number of aristocrat families and as well to the members of the Greek royal family. The area remains one of the wealthiest suburbs of Athen. ;-)
Most of Europe puts up with this crap from their anarchist citizens for some reason.
French Anarchists Riot 2006
Berlin Anarchists Riot
Anarchists Riot in Germany / Rostock (G8)
Anarchists Riot in Gothenburg, Sweden
Anarchists Riot in Stockholm 2006
Anarchists Riot in Greece 2006
Anarchists Riot in Poland
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