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Alarm at Greek police ’collusion’ with far-right Golden Dawn

Last month, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, warned Europe that his country was on the edge of a Weimar Germany-style social collapse. What I have seen on the streets of Athens convinces me this is not rhetoric. The situation is changing rapidly. There is a violent far-right party, its MPs committing and inciting violence with impunity; a police force that cannot or will not prevent Golden Dawn from projecting uniformed force on the streets. And a middle class that feels increasingly powerless to turn the situation round.

Deb Ranjan Sinha

►http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19976841

Greece’s far-right party, Golden Dawn, won 18 parliamentary seats in the June election with a campaign openly hostile to illegal immigrants and there are now allegations that some Greek police are supporting the party.

“There is already civil war,” says Ilias Panagiotaros. If so, the shop he owns is set to do a roaring trade.

It sells camouflage gear, police riot gloves, face masks and T-shirts extolling football hooliganism.

#grèce #néo-nazis #extrême-droite #racisme #xénophobie

Greek police accused of using protester as human shield
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/11/greek-police-protester-human-shield

Greek authorities have launched an investigation into allegations that riot police used a female protester as a human shield during angry demonstrations over a visit to Athens by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, this week.

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Greek police accused of collaborating with Golden Dawn | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/08/greek-police-golden-dawn

Constantinou, a tall thin man who has spent years running an organisation that protects migrants is, like a growing number of Greeks, convinced that it is the police who have facilitated Golden Dawn. “Without police cover and protection Golden Dawn would not have survived,” he said. “And the proof of that is the failure to capture Kasidiaris. How is it possible that a man can do what he did in a television studio and yet manage to get away and stay on the run after a state prosecutor has ordered his arrest? The police clearly don’t want to arrest him.”

“Suspicions of the collaboration between the police and Golden Dawn were confirmed at the ballot box in May,” he told the Guardian. “As much as 50% of the police force voted for the party. There might be all the political will to arrest Kasidiarias. But there is a certain level of unwillingness among the police force that will stop that happening.”

#Aubedorée #extrême-droite #police #Grèce #racisme

Pendant ce temps là ? on construit encore de nouvelles prisons en Grèce ... #CRA

Immigrants detention camp to be created in Kozani « clandestina
►http://clandestinenglish.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/immigrants-detention-camp-to-be-created-in-kozani

Yesterday, Monday March 19, the Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrisochoidis announced in the Greek Cabinet that a new immigrants’ detention camp will be created in Kozani.
The camp will be under the authority of Greek police and will be located in a former military base. The camp’s capacity will be 1,000 inmates.
This will be the first official detention camp in Greece. The responsibility for guarding the perimeter of the detention camp will be given to the Greek police, but according to unofficial info, a private security company will be contracted for the interior.

Greek police evict Syntagma square — videos here! | Reflections on a Revolution ROAR
►http://roarmag.org/2011/07/greek-police-evict-syntagma-livestream-here

In the early hours of Saturday, Greek riot police cleared the protest camp at #Syntagma making at least 8 arrests. We have some early videos here.

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