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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 09:00 AM Oct 2012

Greek anti-fascist protesters 'tortured by police' after Golden Dawn clash

Fifteen anti-fascist protesters arrested in Athens during a clash with supporters of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn have said they were tortured in the Attica General Police Directorate (GADA) – the Athens equivalent of Scotland Yard – and subjected to what their lawyer describes as an Abu Ghraib-style humiliation.

Members of a second group of 25 who were arrested after demonstrating in support of their fellow anti-fascists the next day said they were beaten and made to strip naked and bend over in front of officers and other protesters inside the same police station.

Several of the protesters arrested after the first demonstration on Sunday 30 September told the Guardian they were slapped and hit by a police officer while five or six others watched, were spat on and "used as ashtrays" because they "stank", and were kept awake all night with torches and lasers being shone in their eyes.
injuries fromth e Greek police Bruising on the leg

Some said they were burned on the arms with a cigarette lighter, and they said police officers videoed them on their mobile phones and threatened to post the pictures on the internet and give their home addresses to Golden Dawn, which has a track record of political violence.

http://news.apsou.gr/international/news/greek-antifascist-protesters-tortured-by-police-after-golden-dawn-clash

Not LBN and the only source is the Guardian.

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Greek anti-fascist protesters 'tortured by police' after Golden Dawn clash (Original Post) dipsydoodle Oct 2012 OP
Maybe Rumsfeld and Cheney got some consultant work. n/t gordianot Oct 2012 #1
This is really alarming Lucy Goosey Oct 2012 #2
More info tama Oct 2012 #3
sYNODIA + eLLINARES ! Anti Golden Dawn ! project2021 Mar 2013 #4

Lucy Goosey

(2,940 posts)
2. This is really alarming
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 09:11 AM
Oct 2012

It's also, I think, a pretty direct consequence of income inequality/unemployment/austerity.

project2021

(5 posts)
4. sYNODIA + eLLINARES ! Anti Golden Dawn !
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 12:24 PM
Mar 2013
SYNODIA + eLLINARES!

don´t put their brown, german dirt on our flag + now I am talking to you:
proud, betrayed and misled +

don´t start to bribe me +
cause i need you to believe in me
no need to fight me +
cause i am a proud greek like you

"golden dawn" is like a downfall
in front of the crisis
they only know hate
they don´t know what pride is

chorus:

YOU MAY MISLEAD MANY
BUT YOU WON´T MISLEAD THIS LAND AGAIN
INSTEAD OF A GOLDEN DAWN
THEY WOULD GIVE US RAPE AND MURDER!

DO YOU WANT A NEW CIVIL WAR?
dO YOU WANT A NEW CIVIL WAR?

don´t start to bribe me
cause i need you to believe in me
no need to fight me
or do you want greeks to shoot at greeks?!

it´s not to late to change your BELIEVES
it´s not ´67 yet it´s not too late for greece!

chorus:

YOU MAY MISLEAD MANY
BUT YOU WON´T MISLEAD THIS LAND AGAIN
INSTEAD OF A GOLDEN DAWN
THEY WOULD GIVE US RAPE AND MURDER!

DO YOU WANT A NEW CIVIL WAR?
dO YOU WANT A NEW CIVIL WAR?



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