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Ninja | 02.07.2009 21:38

Anarchists go on arson spree


Self-styled anarchists carried out a string of arson attacks in Athens and Piraeus on Saturday, targeting police and businesses and causing widespread damage but no injuries.

A group of around 100 youths attacked a riot police unit stationed near the offices of the main opposition party PASOK in the central Athens district of Exarchia early on Saturday, hurling petrol bombs and stones and damaging parked cars. At around the same time, 20 youths destroyed three buses parked at a bus depot in the Athens suburb of Aghios Dimitrios. Later on Saturday, at around 4.30 p.m., a homemade explosive device made with gas canisters detonated, damaging the entrance to the offices of a polling firm on central Patission Street. A similar bomb damaged the entrance to the Piraeus Chamber of Arts and Crafts when it went off about half an hour earlier. A device planted outside another polling firm in the Athens district of Ambelokipi at 1.30 p.m. failed to go off when a resident saw a candle burning next to two gas canisters and extinguished it.

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Display the following 14 comments

  1. OK so — A
  2. Errmm... — B
  3. Yeah well — A
  4. In fact — A
  5. @ — Ninja
  6. and by the way.. — Ninja
  7. For real — A
  8. solidarity with the uprising; bollocks to sexism — 4
  9. Some Greek anarchists are idiots. 'Fraid so! — C
  10. i am da fukin emperor of the earth ! — Ninja
  11. maybe this will let you understand our passion — Ratamahatta
  12. cyborgs watch — d
  13. Kudos to the Greek anarchists for kicking arse, but the sexism made me lol — anon
  14. I wish — Ninja Ratamahatta