Greece: Anarchists in Athens welcome Condoleezza Rice

On April 25th 2006 several thousands of demonstrators from the anarchist-antiauthoritarian movement and the left wing demonstrated in Athens streets, as a reaction to the visit of Condoleeza Rice in greece to discuss, amongst other, the matter of invading Iran and ask for the political and military support of the Greek government. Even from the previous day, in fear of the student's opposition and possible taking over of the university near the hotel where Rice was going to stay, the riot police blocked Pandeion University, while the streets were full of police patrols and undercover policemen since the early hours of Tuesday.

While the "top-level personalities" played on diplomacy and impressions during "high-level" meetings, heavy police forces (more than 5,000 policemen according the authorities) blocked main streets and imposed a prohibition of demonstrations in the very center of Athens city. When the demonstrators tried to go through the police blockages and demonstrate, tons of tear-gas was sprayed against them.

While the leftists begun to run and dispersed to recover from the tear gas, to the surprise of the police, hooded anarchists suddenly appeared out of the crowd (before that they had mingled into the crowd so as not to be spotted), quickly setting up roadblocks, in order to delay the riot cops attacking the crowd again. Indeed, stones and molotov cocktails kept them for some time at distance from the main mass of the demonstrators, while the leftists managed to regroup and recover a little further down the road.

During the clashes, which immediately erupted 9 people were arrested and brought to the police headquarters and 2 demonstrators were injured.

Photos can be found at http://athens.indymedia.org/tiki_read/tiki_front.php?lang=el&article_id=1...

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[antifaking]

well done, anarchist in greece keep proving that they don't take shit from no authority nowhere. let's show those capitalists pigs what we are made of!

[crashthepopularkids]

molotovs rock ass, anarchist rocks police bastards, capitalist and politicians ass

[beenienoga]

@MuslimApostate i dont think i said any of that stuff....did i say i hate obama for his ethnicity? not the case...are you even an american? im not racist...dude my sister is chinese my gf is a mix of spanish and asian and my cousin fucks a black chick..my grandpa was a jew...who the fuck you think you are? you gotta open your mind bro

[MuslimApostate]

@Krivaka sorry if i judgeed you to be a redneck but you don't have to be one to be racist (redneck or not). And most americans that attack the US government now i feel just do it out of secret and blind hatred towards his ethnic roots. The fact that so many americans of all political and social spheres believe he is not an american citizen only reinforces what i think that you and many others out of bigotry and stupidity use the political situation as an excuse to vent your anti obama racism.

[Krivaka]

@Ameer18 where you from man? you sayin anyone who doesnt like obama is a redneck? im from fuckin new jersey man im no redneck..im an anarchist not a republican..and umm im pretty sure obama polls are at an all time low so i think you must me jerkin your bird watchin msnbc all day

[Krivaka]

alright...im from america...america is NOT capitalist its corporatist and our foreign policy is bullshit interventionism..government is the problem NOT capitalism...but great job greeks for showing that dirty bitch shes not welcome..we need to kick her out of our country..we hate her too. idk how to translate this to greek but im sure someone understands me lol

[pirufihho]

@antifaking Yeah Fuck them!!!!!!!!

[vladoiraklisg10]

kala kanoun i neari re Bastarde

[Kellerharius]

Hahahaha this brightened up my day seeing this.

[llordofbeuh]

A sparkle in Athens, a whole fire in Paris... hail to the Greeks! we watch you, FIGHT AGAINST THIS FUCKIN SYSTEM

[Jianni85]

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT AGAIN!!!!!!

[74SU]

join the revolution!!!.the war has started against the governments.time 2 take back whats ours!!!!