[D66] Mass protests and police violence in Greece

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Mass protests and police violence in Greece
By Christoph Dreier
19 October 2012

As European Union leaders assembled in Brussels to discuss how to 
proceed with the euro crisis, tens of thousands demonstrated in Athens 
and other Greek cities against EU austerity measures and their 
disastrous consequences for the vast majority of the population.

In Athens alone, an estimated 80,000 workers gathered in different 
locations to march to the city’s central Syntagma Square. The vast 
majority of railways, ferries and buses were hit by strike actions, as 
was air traffic. “Enough is enough,” a striking water works employee 
told Reuters. “They’ve dug our graves, shoved us in and now we are 
waiting for the priest to read the last words.” Other demonstrators 
chanted “Out with the EU and IMF!”

Thursday’s protests were the third mass demonstration against austerity 
measures within a month. The last protests took place during the recent 
state visit by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel when more than a 
hundred thousand people assembled in Athens. Greek workers are obviously 
not willing to accept further cuts after two years of brutal social attacks.

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