Δευτέρα 20 Αυγούστου 2012

Hydra tax revolt

Turns out it wasn't a tax revolt at all just some locals reacting to the arrest of a restaurant owner. They did cut the power to the local police station and the riot police was sent as a show of force. It is all quite ridiculous realy. What is not so ridiculous is the racist inspired beatings that have been taking place. It all got out of hand after a Pakistani national raped and beat a young Greek girl on the island of Paros. The media in its infinite wisdom focused on this case and on its perpetrator. Stories in the news would go over the evidence and many times refer to the accused as already guilty. A nasty habit of the press here when one can't afford a good lawyer. A bank robbery folowed on the same island where a man was killed while trying to interfere with the robber's escape. Then some poor Irani national was murdered by six or eight bikers in Athens. A few other immigrants where beaten rather baddly as well in unrelated incidents. Then we find out the bank robbers are Greek and not "coloured" as some people where suggesting. Members of an obscure group of terrorists. Poverty, violence, Fear-long live the Troika and welcome to the west Greece.

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