Athens: Immigrants attacked following murder
Several hundred people, including neo-Nazis, assaulted immigrants in the Athens neighborhood of Patission, after a murder blamed on foreigners.
Wednesday, 11.05.2011.
12:01
Several hundred people, including neo-Nazis, assaulted immigrants in the Athens neighborhood of Patission, after a murder blamed on foreigners. Shouting "foreigners get out," the mob earlier attacked immigrants in the street and vandalized at least one foreign-owned shop, police said. Athens: Immigrants attacked following murder Police used tear gas to keep protesters away from a squatter home in Patission. The violence broke out after a 44-year-old man was stabbed to death early Tuesday as he prepared to take his pregnant wife to hospital. The men, whom witnesses described as foreigners, grabbed the video camera he was carrying to film the birth of his second child. The murder has reignited doubts that police are capable of preventing some parts of Athens from being overrun by drug addicts, prostitutes and illegal immigrants, as well as right-wing vigilantes.
Athens: Immigrants attacked following murder
Police used tear gas to keep protesters away from a squatter home in Patission.The violence broke out after a 44-year-old man was stabbed to death early Tuesday as he prepared to take his pregnant wife to hospital.
The men, whom witnesses described as foreigners, grabbed the video camera he was carrying to film the birth of his second child.
The murder has reignited doubts that police are capable of preventing some parts of Athens from being overrun by drug addicts, prostitutes and illegal immigrants, as well as right-wing vigilantes.
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