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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-12-24
CONTENTS
[01] Papandreou receives traditional dance troupes
[02] Happy Holiday from the ANA-MPA
[03] Two weapons used in attack
[01] Papandreou receives traditional dance troupes
Main opposition PASOK party leader George Papandreou on Wednesday
received several traditonal dance groups of different parts of
Greece that sang him Christmas carols. PASOK leader danced together
with the members of the groups and afterwards both parts exchanged
wishes and christmas presents.
[02] Happy Holiday from the ANA-MPA
Downtown Athens returned to a customary Christmas and New Year's
atmosphere this past week following a week of self-styled anarchist
rioting and violence in the city's centre, in the wake of a police
shooting of a 15-year-old minor on Dec. 6, 2008. The photo shows
Syntagma Square, across from Parliament, on Wednesday, 24 December
2008, the traditional hub of holiday events in the Greek capital.
ANA-MPA / SIMELA PANTZARTZI.
[03] Two weapons used in attack
Two different weapons were used in an attack early Tuesday morning
against a police bus carrying members of a riot squad in the east
Athens district of Goudi, as the vehicle passed by a university campus.
A crime scene investigation turned up seven spent 7.62mm cartridges
belonging to two different weapons, presumably military-style assault
rifles or light machine guns, and possibly used by two perpetrators.
The incident generated concern in the country that self-styled
anarchist or ultra-leftist terror cells will again strike law
enforcement targets in the wake of the police shooting death of a
15-year-old youth earlier in the month in central Athens - an incident
that caused unprecedented riots in the Greek capital and other cities.
Moreover, site of the attack -- apparently taking place from within
university premises that are "off-limits" to law enforcement due to
Greece 's "asylum" regime for such institutions -- again generated
heated debate over the issue of university asylum.
Caption: ANA-MPA file photo of a police bus same as the one that was
shot at on Tuesday 23 December 2009 in the east Athens district of
Goudi.
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