There are riots in Greece basically once a month or so. Last year a guy got killed at a riot after a Women’s volleyball match. Rioting is just part of their culture for whatever reason.
“There are riots in Greece basically once a month or so. Last year a guy got killed at a riot after a Women’s volleyball match. Rioting is just part of their culture for whatever reason.”
Usually they riot, at least in Athens, on Tuesdays. It goes back to the days of the Colonels’ junta. Its something that happens in Greece. Students, with assorted anarchists and communists, go on a rampage smashing windows and firebombing cars. The media seems to be making a big deal out of this one, in part I think for the American public/media who have no understanding at all of anything in the Balkans but never miss an opportunity to spout off about how those folks should start acting like Americans.
Here’s an observation for all. In Greece, people are really free, free to say what they want, free to, for all intents and purposes, give the finger to authority and get away with it and they do it every day. The trade off is stuff like this but as a group, they’d never want to live in the sort of police and order enamored state we here in America live in. We’ve made our choice, they’ve made theirs.