* For a bit more of a local "flavor" of how these raids of the Golden Dawn members (proclaimed as "indignant locals") in the immigrant neighbourhoods, smashing shops, community centers and chasing people around, while the police is merely standing and watching (near the end they threaten an african man ordering him to run for his life (from 1:34 on), while the police, are just revving their motorcycle) you can have a look at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXc30nnr-PE&feature=youtu.be
* And here, their members subsituting police, checking the licences of immigrant street vendors during a street celebration, before going on a destruction spree and wreck the kiosks of several of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJntEn4ddA The police was present during this and other similar raids all over Greece, doing nothing. it's not only that they cannot, but they simply will not take action agaist them, since the largest part of the police force voted for Golden Dawn (Some 80% according to the police station election results - since police vote in special booths installed in the police stations and the results can be very easily monitored)
The last few days the random attacks of Golden Dawn members in the city center have become organised pogroms in the immigrant neighbourhoods, breaking into shops, hitting and chasing people around, smashing the Tanzanian community twice (The second time installing a small explosive mechanism). The president of the community announced a few days ago that the community will cease its operations for fear of further retaliations, like other communities, such as the Afghan have done)
Pictures and videos of the attacks on the Tanzanian community:
http://tinyurl.com/d7tyqfz (after the attack with the explosives)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=uHyeEJJUeU8&feature=endscreen (on the first attack)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfHokESU3FU&feature=endscreen&NR=1 (on the first attack)
Words actually fail me to keep reporting, right now, on the current situation in Athens regarding the issues raised by Deb Ranjan Sinha.
I would be glad to offer assistance if anyone is interested in more information, and/or raise awareness locally, since the language barrier that afflicts the access of foreign research and media on the local situation is significant, hence the silence, globally.
Best Regards,
Joanna Tsoni MSc
Independent Researcher
Athens, Greece
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