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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Police shooting catalyses growing Greek unrest

"Athens and Thessaloniki under siege" read the headline in the daily Greek newspaper Eleftheros Typos. For the Apogevmatini newspaper it was "48 hours of horror". Not without melodrama, the papers were describing the violence that erupted in Athens and other major cities after the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old on Saturday. Protesters hurled petrol bombs and rocks at police and vandalised ...

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