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  • Too bad you guys visited Athens during the 2008 riots... But I guess you would encounter riots in the city center at any given time... :P The syntagma square has been the battlefield between the rioters and the riot police since the beggining of time. The 08 riots were different from the rest though. Usually the uproar rises due to incidents of political corruption (we've got plenty of it) but in this case a cop had killed a young boy. Next thing you know, there's chaos everywhere.

  • @tsimos4eva No,my friend. In my opinion it was a first even for greek standards.The riots were targeted for the first time primarily against stores instead of state buildings.The number and ferocity of the so called rioters was the worst up to that date.And so called rioters are used by the state/police ever since to prevent and/or taint massive peaceful and utterly justified demonstrations.This method was used again in 2010 (Marfin-murders) and in 2011 at Syntagma Square.

  • @tsimos4eva Also the "riots" wreaked financial devastation to store-owners in downtown Athens. Even before the "riots" the mayor of Athens neglected systematically certain parts of the city where real estate prices plummeted. In these areas immobiles were bought for a dime by politicians. And the so called "rioters" (unwillingly?)contributed to the real estate prices plummeting even more. After the 2009, 2010 and 2011 "riots" and the crisis the city centre is financially practically dead.

  • watch?v=4B1t72ZoF7E

  • now that's what i call tourism!

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  • flompas o xenos..stou diaolou ti mana eskase to dakrygono

  • Been there, was life changing

  • Al long as the austerity tightens, tear gas will be our food. And we are damn proud about it

  • new and improved riot from greece. now with more tear gas and more austerity.

  • you had to wear a more fat clothe on your face... i learned it after my first time... (sorry for my bad english)

  • Liked the tear gas..? It's healthy cause it makes you realize that we struggle against the fucking politicians and their mupets, the cops!!

  • Its imbecilic and destructive.........bored, unemployed irresponsible people.......

  • I luv a bit of teargas. Teargas makes you remember in what sad society we live in!!!

  • Oloi se ayth th xwra einai gtp...Astynomikoi k diadhlwtes....oloi omws.....k sto katw katw ths grafhs ti 8elete na peite me to ACAB???Epeidh enas ein mlks tote oloi ein mlks...Kai osoi tolmoun na poun oti ayto sto binteo ein agwnas mporei na paei na aytoktwnhsei...Mono to prwi ein oi kaninikes diadhlwseis...xwris fwties,molotov k katastrofh idiokthsiwn.*a h8ela na dw ti 8a ekane enas apo aytous an epiane fwtia to spiti tou apo mia molotov,na dw tote ti 8a ginotan...

  • Grand theft aouto Athens

  • Rioting is fun

  • nice :)

  • Soryps78 ante kai gamhsou(=FUCK YOU MALAKA)

  • @jkCjoker poly epoikodomitiko sxolio.Kai anamfivolos epi tis ousias. Eksoxi epixeirimatologia. Very constructive comment. And beyond the shadow of a doubt to the point. Magnificent arguments.Btw: Where you even there?If you speak greek feel free to respond in greek.Looking forward to a further manifestation of your intellect's supremacy.Adimono na se thaymaso ek neou.

  • @jkCjoker poly epoikodomitiko sxolio.Kai anamfivolos epi tis ousias. Eksoxi epixeirimatologia. Very constructive comment. And beyond the shadow of a doubt to the point. Magnificent arguments.Btw: Where you even there?If you speak greek feel free to respond in greek.Looking forward to a further manifestation of your intellect's supremacy.Adimono na se thaymaso ek neou.

  • Wow!!!!

  • Buggy jumping-Parachuting etc..bullshit!!!

    Exterme Vacations only in Athens Mates..!!! ''We Make You Cry''

  • and a last modest contribution to the discussion of the 2008 athens riots: After the conclusion of the Synaspismos demonstration I went on foot to the place where Grigoropoulos was murdered. The people there were a vast crowd of seven(including me).not seven hundred. Simply seven.

  • It was not a coinsidence that the socalled rioters constantly hovered around or accompanied the Synaspismos demonstration. In any case it was almost expected by persons far more experienced than me in Synaspismos demonstrations.

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  • Yelling at cops the ususal slogan "batsi, gourounia, dolofonoi"(=cops, pigs, murderers) does simply not qualify as a justification for setting other people's businesses on fire. And as I have already stated(see comment posted below) I was there

  • Greetings to you, friends of peace! I had the questionable "privilege" to walk the streets of Athens at night on the 8th Dec. 2008 from 18:00 to approximately midnight. I haven't heard a single demand from the side of the "rioters" except the usual "batsi, gourounia dolofonoi"(=cops, pigs, murderers).

  • and a big well done to the greeks for kickin some pig ass

  • benjaros, you obviously have no clue why there doing it, a 15 year boy was shot dead by police. and you say greece should be thrown out the union, do you know what the union really means or in fact do you know what your own government is up to, why not check it out, or are you one of those fucking idiots thank think there is a point to polotics

  • ΞΕΡΕΙΣ ΠΟΣΑ 15ΧΡΟΝΑ ΠΕΘΑΙΝΟΥΝ ΚΑΘΕ ΜΕΡΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΟΣΜΟ?, ΚΑΨΕ ΤΗ ΠΟΛΗ ΚΑΘΕ ΜΕΡΑ ΚΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΑΥΤΑ

  • @HOODEDYOB alo na pethani apo ena aliti....k alo apo enan "prostati" giati emis tous plironoume gia na mas prostatevoune oxi gia na exoune eksousia , eisai mouni makari na se skotosoune kanena diko sou gia na dis pos einai i glika

  • @Kostias tetoies malakismenes apopseis exeis, xwris logikh, alla eipa egw alla les esu, gia auto mas gamane to kwlo oi ksenoi, zwo..kai esu dikos mou eisai, rwta th manoula sou

  • ok is this riot now and why are they rioting?

  • parasites? dude your so wrong there

  • damn, is it strange that I wish i was there?

  • Burn your home shithead

  • @TheDailyMonk not at all...i was there in many familiar situation and i will be there lots of times at the future

  • @TheDailyMonk nope man! i was there 2 weeks straight and it was awesome...!!!!!!!

    do something good for your country!!

    kill a cop!!

  • go to hell

  • rate this 1 star:

    /watch?v=Vfr3Xz2z4OY&

  • nice vid m8 good job

  • people should not be afraid of their goverments goverments should be afraid of people!

  • dude i so agree with that the goverment should fear its ppl not the other way around (A)

  • No one should be afraid of anyone.

  • when goverments dont give a shit about people,politicians do whatever they want!the only way to change this is to be afraid of us!!!

  • I dont see how buring innocent peoples shops down is giving a shit about anyone.

  • nobody burnt down some random's guy shop!i was there the only thing burnt down was the fucking cristhmas tree because a young boy was dead and everyone pretended like nothing happened!also a lot of fucking banks were destroyed cause they suck people's blood!

  • ΤΙ ΛΕΣ ΡΕ ΒΛΑΜΕΝΕ ΠΡΟΒΟΚΑΤΟΡΑ, ΠΕΡΑΣΕΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΕΡΜΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΑΚΑΔΗΜΙΑΣ, ΨΟΦΑ ΡΕ ΜΠΑΣΤΑΡΔΕ ΠΟΥ ΕΧΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΘΡΑΣΟΣ ΝΑ ΛΕΣ ΟΤΙ ΔΕΝ ΒΑΛΑΝ ΦΩΤΙΕΣ ΣΤΑ ΜΑΓΑΖΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ.

  • Kala ise gia ton poutso atomo!katse des thleorash kai enimerwsou apo ekei,

    ka9isterimene!egw ipa oti oi anarxikoi dn spagan magazia!mono trapezes kai polie9nikes!eisai enas malakas tou internet!telos...xD

  • ΚΑΙ ΠΩΣ ΞΕΡΕΙΣ ΒΡΕ ΜΑΛΑΚΑ ΕΣΥ ΟΤΙ ΚΑΝΕΝΑΣ ΑΝΑΡΧΙΚΟΣ ΔΕΝ ΕΣΠΑΣΕ ΜΑΓΑΖΙΑ Η' ΟΤΙ ΚΑΝΕΝΑΣ ΜΠΑΧΑΛΑΚΙΑΣ ΔΕΝ ΕΣΠΑΣΕ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ? ΕΙΣΟΥΝ ΜΑΖΙ ΤΟΥΣ? ΦΙΛΕ ΕΧΕΙΣ ΣΟΒΑΡΟ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑ ΚΑΤΑΝΟΗΣΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΡΙΣΗΣ, ΠΙΣΩ ΣΤΟ ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΟ

  • kala egw prepei na paw pisw sto dhmotiko h' ec pou dn 3ereis na grafeis?an 9es na 3ereis mazi tous imouna kai mono oi mpahaloi kai kati pitsirikia ta spagan!fantazome oti ise kanas ethnikistis de3ios pou vlepeis eidhseis kai vgazeis simperasmata!

  • ΕΧΩ ΖΗΣΕΙ, ΣΠΟΥΔΑΣΕΙ ΚΑΙ ΕΡΓΑΣΤΕΙ 8 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΕΞΩΤΕΡΙΚΟ, ΣΕ ΧΩΡΑ ΠΟΥ Ο ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΥΠΕΥΘΗΝΟΣ ΧΩΡΙΣ ΝΑ ΤΑ ΠΕΡΙΜΕΝΕΙ ΟΛΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΚΡΑΤΟΣ.. ΤΟ ΝΑ ΒΓΑΖΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΣΥΜΠΕΡΑΣΜΑ ΟΤΙ ΕΙΜΑΙ ΔΕΞΙΟΣ ΕΠΕΙΔΗ ΔΕΝ ΥΠΟΣΤΗΡΙΖΩ ΑΥΤΟΥΣ ΠΟΥ ΤΑ ΣΠΑΝΕ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΠΑΙΔΑΡΙΩΔΕΣ.

  • kaneis dn ta perimenei ola apo to kratos gi afto kai oi perissoteroi pane kai pianoun 3 douleies gia na ta feroun volta xwris na tous kollane ensima kai xwris asfaleia!dn ipa oti ise de3ios epidi dn ipostirizeis aftous pou ta spane!apla nevriasa dioti me apokaleses provokatora apthn stigmi pou to mono pou ekana itan na episimanw tin propaganda pou krivete pisw apo ka9e reportaz sthn thleorash...

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  • Haha, its strange, its like a warzone, yet people are just strolling around like its a curiosity. 

    Strange.

  • cloverfield 2 - tear gas

  • Modern Greeks are out of shape.

  • let me know when u'll be here.cunt!

  • ok don't cry. Signomi pou sto lew ala gtfo kai pare kai to fail mazi sou. :3 . i A8ina ena mpourdelo einai. dn nomizw na exeis amfivolia.

  • Remember remember, the 6th of December.

  • The gunpowder treason and plot,I see no reason,why gunpowder treason,should ever be forgot!

    (A) LIBERTA! (A)

  • Greeks are real rioters!!!!

  • Blame canada!!!

  • at 2:39 the rioters yelling caps -pigs -killers(murderers?)

  • yes, 'cops-pigs-murderers' in greek

  • ahh so yuor greek

  • what were the rioters saying at 2:39?

  • This country is really screwed up!

  • we are fucked up but not by us. by the big heads.

  • This country unfortunately is really fucked up.

  • 6-12-2008...15 year old boy dead from cops.... Fuck goverments fuck nations fuck flags fuck police fuck banks...

    our country is all the world...ACAB.. alexis u still alive..

  • why a christmas tree?

  • Smoke tear gas, no cigarettes :p

    I was in Athens all those days. That was not Christmas, that was Tearg(m)as :p

  • He's not an American, you morons!! Respect to the demonstrators and the people who go to witness it.

  • Respect from Palestine

  • respect from greece... free to palestine people

  • i am glad that these guys got hit by teargas because they where having fun... but riots are not something to make fun of my american friend

  • lol " good luck boys" another great vid fellas keep em comming!

  • i hope the protests in Greece will continue on until legitimate change occurs.

    in solidarity, from the US.

  • wear snow board glases with u next time ;)

  • no, it shoudnt end.. it should go on and on. and it isnt something funny. you are doing of course your job... and rioters their!! which is kicking reporters asses to!!

  • FUCK USA

  • no the riot is about a kid dead...shooted by a cop

  • free anarchy movie tourists

  • Now that you've been hit by tear gas do u understand what those pigs are throwing to us by the tons...5 tons of EXPIRED tear gas was thrown at the greek riots of december...i just hope the world understands what means they use to stop us and still we stand.

  • that was before tear gas brought from israil.. if this one black pepper from israil was tobasco...

  • But wait.... Didn't a 56 minute fire burn down the 102 story World Trade Center on 9-11? That is what they claimed. We all know it's a lie now.

  • next time leave the camera and join us! ;)

    nothing has ended.....

  • FYI I am pretty sure that a riot isn't a tourist attraction. But I could be wrong

  • you are idiot..stay in the usa where arabs is your problem.dont come to greece because some people care...

  • fuck I want to be there

  • Nice video dude... today there were more riots on Patission Str. Sadly, the smoke was everywhere and breathing was impossible so I fled lol

  • holy shit dude, thats crazy. lol wat a shit holiday

  • no my friend!! that the most adventurous you could taste!..what a safari and holyshit! enjoy the video guys 8)

  • I don't know m8 you re english so i would like to ask you a quwstion.

    Do cops in UK carry guns with them?

    I guess not so i don't blame them

  • Crazy... I can't find a source, but I have heard that in Los Angeles in 08 that there was about 1 police murder of an unarmed civilian a week....

  • The police in Melbourne Australia murdered a Hellenic 26 yearold female by the name of Maritsa Xioteli (Chiotelis) and now the whole system is trying to stop her father from exposing them..

  • @warringangeI really????????????????????????­i am greek..where can i find more informations about that?

  • dream on fucker

  • This is all happened because a police officer without proper training shot a 15 years kid in cold blood. The strange thing is that some "anarchist" were spotted on a camera dealing with the police and some said that those riots were deliberately motivated from corrupted politicians to distract the people t away fro a great economical scandal that was in its way to justice at the time...

  • Wow, that's crazy, Hugh, I would have been like OMFG!

  • greets from Liverpool^^

    watched it in the Liverpool Social Centre yesterday...

    awesome shots! well done!

  • awesome video. i am glad the government is afraid from the people.

  • corrupt governments make me lawl

  • nice video man.

  • lol

    Malakas Burning Athens

  • The riots have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the teen that was shot! It's just a tool used by the Anarchists to finally have a "viable" reason to wage war on the government... and good on them!

    Some Greek officials attended the Bilderberg conference of 2008. This would be catastrophic if they fall into the NWO's influence.

  • Hold on - you support the anarchist's agenda, yet you are saying that they are rioting for their own agenda rather than for the much more idealistic purpose of seeking justice for the murder of an innocent teenager?

  • That's exactly what I'm saying. I have relatives living there (also a part of it) that tell me the truth straight out.

  • My point is, I figured you would have wanted to get more support for your cause, and that the better way to do that is to say that the motivation for the riots is the shooting of the innocent teenager (which nobody can deny is wrong and that the officer responsible should be punished). I figured that saying that the motivation for the riots is primarily a personal agenda (anarchy) and not the sickening murder of an innocent would get less support.

  • Call this a coincidence, but the same week or fortnight that the teenager got shot in Greece, another teenager was shot in Australia? In the US?

    This is what I mean by people, or as I like to call them, sheeple, need to WAKE UP!

    I'm all for teaching the establishment a lesson, but this is actually doing the global elite that wish to bring about the New World Order (as admitted on mainstream media) a favour!

    All I can say to everybody is, find the truth before the truth finds you!

  • i don't really understand why the riots in athens started. a teenager was shot by the police -> riots?

    if this happened in the US (actually no 'if,' it does happen) the police officer would get off, he would be fine, no riots. of course if it were the other way and someone kills a police officer, they would be put to death.

    but i do think it's lovely that the grecian people's government standards are so high. if so many people are so taken aback because of a teen's death, that's good, y'know?

  • oh and also, WHY the hell are there are so many mentions of the word 'gay' or 'queer' in this comment section?!? it really has NOTHING to do with this issue!!!

  • YEA next time use flame throwers

  • esei pou eisai antraklas megalos min foras kranos den einai kotes apla den einai ilithioi twra apo to pliktologio pola leei o kathenas. alla esy kai oi filoi sou ta xrysa ayga i oi onedites pou an den mazeytite kamia 100sti na direte kana dekapentaxrono ante stin kaliteri 5 6 dekapentaxrona kai stin xiroteri na maxeronete kosmo den kaneina milate gia andrismo kotes klp giati an deis koukouloforo me to mskarpinaki sou ti epomeni mera tha to pleneis apo ta skata giati tha s exei ftasei stin kaltsa

  • ONE SOLUTION! REVOLUTION!

  • You can't stand teargas at all now can you?

    haha...

    YOU should consider that wherever they toss teargas,there are people right next to it, and they breath that stuff from a much smaller distance.

    Just imagine how it must be for them!!!

    I have been really close and i almost purged!

    And there are videos that show greek cops spreying that stuff in the face of a 16y/o girl!!!

    What does the U.N. do about that?What about public health?How harmfull are these chemicals they throw at us???

  • These are not the action of a civil society nor even the actions of a nation frustrated with economic issues..regardless that the economic melt down is a world crisis.

    These are the actions of mindless unemployable individuals that are representatives of an ideology that lacks any vision of hope ,prosperity and realism.

    Molotovs do not bring down governments nor do they raise spirits but only bring the appropriate negative attention, suitable for those who participate in acts of violence.

  • the worst thing about teargas is that when you have a shower later on in the day if its hot the pain comes back again

  • Platamonas that last comment was directed at wolfie not you sorry...

  • STUNNING STUNNING!!! The Mexico UFO Fleet formed ALLAH MUHAMMAD words!! see the video in my favorite

  • man we were staying in athens the night this happened like 500 meters from all this

    like 30 of us aussie high school kids

  • w0w. looks like fun, getting tear gassed an all. jk. looked like it was pretty hectic. thans 4 sharin

  • believe..I was all the time there..its not fun.

  • to the rioters- go home u faggots. u have no reason to riot. to the cops- open fire

  • SUPPORT THE GREEK ANARCHY  .antifa

  • :D if tolstoyscat is telling the truth then Greece seems like sum sort of paradise on earth. I just hope they also pay visits 2 members of the communist party and give them a good old beating.

  • Here is an idea, let's protest for a better world by going round to the leftist nazi houses and smash and burn them?

    They obviously would support that.

  • Yeah, Greek Police are splendid when they aren't torturing immigrants, beating students, or harassing homeless people.

  • what happen you dident get to the riot in time??

    why werent u standing amongst the rioters or behind them taping this shit.... all that u have done is aftermath....poor effort...dont expect a call from CNN any time soon!

  • Australia's tourist industry is suffering a downturn and everyone's "concerned" about their civil liberties, so maybe we should riot: it might get some of the laws changed and it certainly attracts tourists.

  • Hughsnews, I mean I understand you stated, "We were never in danger nor did anyone, police or rioter target us or was even rude to us!" But, it seemed that at first you might have been afraid of the protesters?

  • Hughsnews, My impression is that you got over your initial fear of the protesters? Would that be a fair statement?

  • the google version had an advertisement that said 'become a hero! get a job in law enforcement!'

  • What jerks would set a Christmas tree on fire?

  • Grow up

  • Christmas tree? A symbol of the consumerism? ummm, let me think... LOL

  • i meant to say world instead or would lol

  • SeenTheCops i agree entirely. Australia is one of best countries in the would and it is nothing more than blasphemy that u think our civil liberties r being eroded.. geez and as i hav sed in comments before, the 15 yr old was an anarchist and he attacked the police in a riot, the police were just doing their job

  • Australia is one of the most liberal countries in the world. This why it is such a shame when our politicians introduce such totalitarian laws. Blasphemy? You should learn how to use words in the correct context ... I'm sure you meant to accuse me of being unpatriotic... Please educate yourself about the amendments to our laws done under the guise its for your own protection.

  • mate there could be a bit of a misunderstanding going on here too because the americans have a different meaning of liberal then us (in a political context)

    but i agree with you about net censorship. it will slow down access immensely, the government has forecast a minimum of 20 million websites will be blocked by accident and its and infringement on our liberties

  • Net speed is of my lowest concern.

  • I use liberal in the strict definition of the word. Not a political referemce. There is no subjigation in the pure definition of this word.

  • Look ErigonMK u seem like a bit of a leftist dickhead hoo is full of shit. Let me just say that ur fucking lucky to even live under a government like Australia's and also if there was one person in the street i would like 2 accidentally shoot it would be u so stop complaining about Australia, its one of the best countries in the world and i think u should get over sum stupid internet censorship seriously get a life. I also noticed u were Macedonian... so no wonder ur full of shit...

  • governments doing alot more then internet censorship...i'm immigrating out of this shit hole, you can have the country.

  • good, no1 wants u here anyway u unloved cock-sucker

  • what are you? 12? grow up faggot...

  • nope 17, how old r u? 50? r u sum fat old pedo guy?

  • wow 17, have your balls dropped yet?

  • Wouldn't you like to know you perve. Go back to the common little hole that you came from.

  • Don't forget the sedition. I never complained. I am merely pointed out these facts. Read my previous comments. I say that Australia is one the most liberal country in the world. Calm down. I'm sorry you are a bigot.

  • Introduction of sedition and proposition of new compulsory (Internet) censorship laws. Does this not sound like civil liberty encroachment?

  • I live in Australia. Yes, our civil liberties are being eroded. It is a global trend. Oppression is happening world-wide - let alone Greece.

  • What a bunch of self righteous, self important idiots. You seriously believe that our civil liberties in Australia are being eroded?? For all these people spouting ludricous threories of oppression & global struggle; I bet your'e the same people who screams for police when you get burgled or assaulted. wankers. Get a life.

  • On most occasions, the police merely follow command. Introduction of sedition and proposition of new compulsory (Internet) censorship laws are examples of how our liberties are being eroded. It is our leaders who facilitate these acts.

  • Yeah, i totally agree, except for the compulsory internet censorship.

    It would have started out pretty innocent. "Yeah, let's block all the terrorist websites" but then the list just got bigger and bigger. The problem with Australia is that we have no constitution like the USA has. We can't be like, "ooh, 1st amendment rights guys" we dont even have the option of crucifying any individuals because in Australia its the whole parties responsibility. We need to uphold our individual freedoms.

  • What do you agree with "totally"? You do not make it clear if you are for or against either sedition or censorship. You are correct, we do not even have Freedom of Speach.