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Peter Popham: Then we knew: this time it was different

Source: The Independent

Athens : Greece | 11 months ago

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There was no surprise in Athens that the shooting of a 15-year-old youth by a policeman should have triggered an angry reaction. What stunned people was that the reaction went on, and on. "We could understand the violence after that for one day," said Kostas, the taxi driver who brought me into the city...

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News Source: The Independent | 11 months ago

There was no surprise in Athens that the shooting of a 15-year-old youth by a policeman should have triggered an angry reaction. What stunned people was that the reaction went on, and on. "We could understand the violence after that for one day,"...