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8,000 TAKE MILITANT ANTI-WAR ACTION AT EU SUMMIT

AYNer | 17.04.2003 10:23

8,000 people take on 20,000 cops in a militant anti-war demonstration in Athens, Greece yesterday pelting police with stones, bottles and Molotov cocktails.

8,000 TAKE MILITANT ANTI-WAR ACTION AT EU SUMMIT
8,000 TAKE MILITANT ANTI-WAR ACTION AT EU SUMMIT


Only a few hundred metres from the EU summit a pitched battle raged between police and anti-war demonstrators. The Italian, British and French embassies were attacked, and banks and stores were trashed and burned.

106 people were arrested, some were severely beaten.

Athens IMC article with lots of pics and links to corporate media articles:

AYNer
- Homepage: http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=92735

Comments

Display the following 13 comments

  1. Poetic justice for the frogs — O'Chirac!
  2. lazy — alex
  3. Video — ...
  4. . — .
  5. huh? — peacenik
  6. where is the proof — peacenik
  7. What? — blacknred
  8. Rioting and violence is counter-productive — Thomas J
  9. important distinction — green_tube
  10. Greeks lived under US dictatorship for years — Austin
  11. Antiwar doesn´t mean peaceful.. — Greek guy
  12. Anti-war doesn't mean being warlike either — Thomas J
  13. The state will continue to oppress — King Mob