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Sunday, November 3, 2013

"?welve Bullets Against Democracy"

ATHENS - A brazen drive-by shooting that killed two young members of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party has shocked Greeks and prompted soul-searching about whether the crisis-hit country is slipping into a 'cycle of violence.' Greece's anti-terrorism force is investigating whether the Nov. 1. rush hour shooting outside the party's offices in Athens was retaliation for a fatal stabbing of an anti-fascism rapper by a Golden Dawn supporter in September, police said. Rapper Pavlos Fyssas' death sparked protests across Greece and a government crackdown on Golden Dawn, which is widely considered neo-Nazi and is blamed for attacks against migrants. 'We cannot let this cycle of violence continue,' Makis Voridis, a senior lawmaker in Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's New Democracy party, told Mega TV. 'This must end here.''Twelve Bullets Against Democracy,' top-selling daily Ta Nea wrote on its front page on Nov. 1. 'The double cold-blooded murder was a coarse provocation against stability.''Twelve Bullets Against Democracy,' top-selling daily Ta Nea wrote on its front page on Nov. 1. 'The double cold-blooded murder was a coarse provocation against stability.'

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