The cathedral before it was ransacked.
Posted on 08/02/2016 2:57:41 PM PDT by NRx
Greek police have arrested 26 protesters who yesterday raided the Greek Orthodox Cathedral in the northern city of Thessaloniki during Mass.
The culprits were protesting against a police operation in the city on Wednesday in which squatters and refugees were evicted from three illegally occupied buildings.
One of the buildings is the property of the Greek Orthodox church and the city's archbishop said that it is being demolished to build a hospice for the terminally ill. The archbishop said that the protesters "destroyed what they could" at the Cathedral yesterday, but did not elaborate.
The protesters threw leaflets around the Gregory Palamas Cathedral before those attending Mass managed to drive them out.
Police said that the group of those arrested, believed to be anarchists, consisted of 19 men and seven women. Seventeen were Greek and the others were from Germany, England, Austria, Switzerland and Morocco. Advertisement
During Wednesday's police operation, 74 people had been arrested, 64 of them foreigners. Thirty-three refugees were released by police.
Early yesterday, an improvised device also exploded outside the offices of the construction company demolishing the church's property, but did little damage.
Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece after Athens. The Cathedral is named after a 14th-century archbishop of Thessaloniki.
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There is a strain of anti-Orthodoxy in the Greek left and there has been at least since the civil war after WW II. Then the communists came to my maternal village, took babies from their mothers’ breats and smashed their heads on the rocks around the town square. They proceeded to hang 20-30 people from the limbs of the trees there and then ransacked the 900 year old church, gouging the eyes out of the Saints in the icons written on the walls and ceiling.
These anarchists are the political heirs of those communists.
I just had a scary thought....
Portugal Churches are loaded with gold.
Probably a $2-5M /Church
It would make an easy target and not well defended.
Sixty-four of the seventy-four arrested were foreigners. I doubt they were communists; more likely, they were muslims in my opinion.
Maybe but I sincerely doubt they are Mohammadens. They likely would have been killed “while escaping”. I suspect they are secularist/atheist anarchists. Europe is full of them.
Anarchists? More like antichrists aka muslims as islam denies Jesus is the chosen one, the christ.
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