Watching Oppression Burn: Across Greece, Across Europe « ZERO ... by American embassy athens greece

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:01:29 -0500

Watching Oppression Burn: Across Greece, Across Europe « ZERO ...

by American embassy athens greece @ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:01:29 -0500
The events, which were “sparked” by the police shooting to death 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Exarchia, Athens, on Saturday, December 6, then erupted into full scale rioting in Athens, across Greece with at least 11 cities ... Where I am writing from, in Montreal, a similar police shooting of a 17-year-old boy, Freddy Villanueva, in a predominantly immigrant neighbourhood with many Latin American and Caribbean families, also led to violent protests against ...