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Monday, November 12, 2012

On streets of Athens, racist attacks increase

In this Oct. 26, 2012, photo, extreme far-right Golden Dawn party lawmaker Ilias Panagiotaros speaks in his shop in central Athens, explaining his party's policies and rejects accusations that it has been involved in racist attacks in Greece. Human rights and immigrant groups say there has been an increase in racist attacks in Greece over the last year, as the country struggles through a protracted financial crisis. On the top left a picture of Serbian warlord Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan is displayed.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)The attack came seemingly out of nowhere. As the 28-year-old Bangladeshi man dug around trash bins one recent afternoon for scrap metal, two women and a man set upon him with a knife. He screamed as he fell. Rushed to the hospital, he was treated for a gash to the back of his thigh.



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