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PASOK deputy suffers head injury in attack outside Exarchia office
PASOK MP Petros Efthymiou spent last night in the hospital after an unidentified assailant struck him over the head with a metal bar as the deputy was about to enter his office in the central Athens district of Exarchia, which is popular with self-styled anarchists...
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Simply common criminals
The revelation by the police that some of the accomplices to the kidnapping of businessman Giorgos Mylonas, the former chairman of the Federation of Industries of Northern Greece, belonged to an anarchist group should be cause for general concern.
We should not forget that not so long ago members of such groups were arrested in the act of robbing banks.
The reappearance of these apparent underground connections are hardly new in the annals of international crime-fighting...
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Writing on the wall
Unsolicited graphic interventions on public and private property - graffiti - has a long and varied history in Greece, and it very much reflects on where society is. Visitors from more «orderly» countries, and those with a heightened need for aesthetic order, are often shocked by the barbarity of the writing and smudges on Greek walls, opening the eyes of the rest of us to a blight to which we have become desensitized. The vandalism may be a statement of an organized kind, such as when major political parties and football teams send their foot soldiers across cities, towns and the countryside with huge stocks of paint, disfiguring bridges, embankments and even country fountains with their primal message that they are everywhere and at the same time accountable to no one (this applies even to parties when they are in power and should be upholding the rule of law, which forbids such vandalism).
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