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Greek riot police evict protesters from public broadcaster
[Al Ahram] Greek riot police burst into the headquarters of former public broadcaster ERT early Thursday and forcibly removed employees who had been occupying the site since its shock shutdown five months ago.ERT's closure in June sparked an international outcry and nearly brought down the coalition government in debt-laden Greece, which has been implementing painful public-sector restructuring in return for international bailout loans. Riot police jumped over fences and bust open locks as they stormed the building in the northern Athens suburb of Aghia Paraskevi in the early hours, going room-to-room to clear the premises, witnesses said. "From what I saw from the cameras they broke the lock of the main entrance at 4:20 am (0220 GMT)," ERT security guard Nikos Kounoupis told AFP. "They started jumping in from the metal gates from the sides. They also broke the door of the side entrance. They started running inside." A representative of the ERT employees' union Pospert, Nikos Tsimbidas, told AFP as he was bundled into a police car that he had been enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! . Thursday's police raid is likely to cause more outrage in the country, which in January assumes the helm of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's rotating six-month presidency. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-08 |
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