ATHENS, Greece – Riots over harsh new austerity measures left three bank workers dead and engulfed the streets of Athens on Wednesday, as angry protesters tried to storm parliament, hurled Molotov cocktails at police and torched buildings. Police responded with barrages of tear gas.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in a nationwide strike to protest new taxes and government spending cuts demanded by the International Monetary Fund and other European nations before heavily indebted Greece gets a euro110 billion ($141 billion) loan package to keep it from defaulting.
The three bank workers — a man and two women — died after demonstrators set their bank on fire along the main demonstration route in central Athens. As their colleagues sobbed in the street, five other bank workers were rescued from the balcony of the burning building.
via news.yahoo.com
why, oh why?!
Indeed! Why? This is all so senseless. And it's definitely not a way to protest, however much I understand the anger and disappointment of the average citizen. The cuts on the 14th salary on the one hand and the heavy taxes on the other stoned the crows!I guess that was the last straw that broke the camel's back. Yet anger is a bad councellor. Hope things look up soon.
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