Athens on Fire: Video of night clashes, Greek capital smoked

Greece is picking up the pieces from the latest bout of civil unrest, when thousands of angry protestors flooded the streets. That's after Parliament gave the green light to tough new cuts, in order to secure a further financial lifeline from the EU. European officials welcomed the move. But Greeks could not have been less happy with the pending austerity, as they gathered in the centre of Athens on the second day of a general strike. Protestors threw stones at police, smashed windows and set fire to property. Police responded with tear gas and stun grenades. Clashes continued overnight. Dozens of police and protestors were injured, while many demonstrators were detained.

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[miguelangel7242]

the greek people are left with nothing but each other.

[kyriacos40]

Germans stole and occupied Greece in world war.I believe the Germans stole gold from Greece in the world war,because they stole from every nation they occupied.Germany defaulted from its debt after the war, Greece should do the same.Imagine Greeks asking back for the gold Germany stolen with interest and its current value today,imagine what its worth would be today.Greeks you need to get rid of corruption in your government period.

[kukuleleful]

@ionios100 haha you are joeking. I personally heard a Greek sayinf that there are too many people employed in the public sector because everyone is traying to work there, the result is that many people tries to get their family members work with them in the public sector. corruption in greece is very high and you even have 14 salaries insted of 12 fr eac month in years.You wnna say thatall s notthe truth?

[crnifico41]

@ionios100 are you shittin me ? minimum retirement was 1000 euro, minimum paycheck 800 euro WTF ? even Germany doesnt have salaries like that

[ionios100]

@kukuleleful you arrogant idiot...greeks work the most of any other people in Europe and earn much less...read before you speak...even better dont speak at all coz it's all bullshit!

[ionios100]

@crnifico41 go back to your hole monkey

[guzicaguzica]

Look back at the glorious ancient Greece and then these degenerated descendants, ah.

If you screwed up yourself, why are you still destroying your property?

[crnifico41]

yua are fucking morons and should be expeled form EU

[AnarchyInSFRY]

@TheCroArmyBilice

No,people,don't be confused.Capitalism failed here, not democracy. This what happens right now is real democracy. Many people think that the point of democracy is to vote every 4 or 5 years. That is not the point of democracy, so please inform yourself before commenting. If majority saw that economic system failed and allowed their government to keep it, now that would be a real crush of democracy. But this, this is the democracy in its purest form :)

[Nered88]

Fuck Greece.. sell your islands you lazy fucks