May 9: Police and Nazis in joint operation against migrant traders and anarchists in central Athens, in broad daylight
On May 9, 2012, only days after the election day in which 1 in 2 police voted Nazi, the two conducted a joint operation against the migrant street traders around the Athens School of Economics (ASOEE) and the anarchists who joined in their support. Skirmishes of this kind have been taking place for a while now, with riot police attempting to enforce a dogma of ‘zero tolerance’ and a ‘clean Athens’, in a discourse echoing that of the Golden Dawn (the Nazi party) and yet enforced by ‘socialist’ ministers Chrisochoidis (Public Order) and Loverdos (Health).
On Wednesday’s operation the police openly co-operated with members
of the Nazi group Golden Dawn. The two have cooperated many times in the
past, whether openly or in disguise. In the videos and photos below
members of the GD chant ‘Greece belongs to the Greeks’, sway crow-bars
and throw stones to the anarchists who chant ‘the tin-cans have yet to
rot’, a reference to the execution (even slaying with tin-cans) of
members of the Nazi-collaborating Security Battalions by partisans of
EAM-ELAS in September 1944, following the battle between them in the
town of Meligalas, SW Peloponnese.
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| Nazis and riot police in joint operation against migrant traders and anarchists. Athens School of Economics, May 10, 2012 |
Source: Occupied London - From the Greek Streets (original article has some more photos).
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