About the riots in Greece

[nancylebov]

I tend to assume that you don't get riots of that scale without a long history of abusive police, but I admit I'm guessing. It's possible that the problem was started on the youth side-- self-righteous violence isn't a government monopoly.

Anyone have background information about what's been going on between the police and teenagers in Greece?

Comments

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Thumbnail sketch (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7771628.stm) courtesy the Beeb (including the significance of "No Day").

And I think there's been a mixture of abusive or at least untrustworthy authority going back to the aftermath of WWII.

[subnumine.livejournal.com]

Nice link, and I agree that this goes back to the Greek Civil War of the late forties. But that in turn goes back to the quarrels between the King and Venizelos in 1917...