Greek governmental xenophobic violence

This video from Greece says about itself:

Golden Dawn, immigration and police violence in Greece – Truthloader speaks to Into The Fire

22 April 2013

Into the Fire is an independent film entirely crowd-funded and crowd-distributed online, looking into the treatment of immigrants in Greece as the country’s politics shift to the far right Golden Dawn Party. We caught up with Kate Mara and Guy Smallman, who were involved in producing the film.

Check out their website and videos:

http://intothefire.org/

http://vimeo.com/64230453

From I Can’t Relax in Greece blog:

“We must make their lives unbearable”

Posted on 20/12/2013 by icantrelaxingreece

Hot Doc magazine reveals that the head of the Greek Police induced violent acts against immigrants in one of his speeches. Amnesty International intervened by demanding the investigation of the case by the government.

The audio file with the statements of the Police Chief [in Greek]

Amnesty International issued a statement demanding the prompt investigation of Hot Doc’s report in which Nikos Papagiannopoulos, Head of Greek Police, appears to be ordering the extension of immigrants’ detention, while declaring that “we must make their lives unbearable”.

Amnesty International asks from the government to check the statements that became known recently and to comply with the laws relating to the protection of migrants and refugees coming to the European Union.

In an audio file played on radio station “105.5 – Sto Kokkino” by journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, the leader of the Greek Police is heard saying (referring to immigrants who come to Greece): “They [immigrants] should know that if they get in the country they will remain detained; […] they will not be let free after three months or so, because otherwise we are achieving nothing, we just appear as an appealing place to illegal immigrants”.

Elsewhere in his speech, Mr Papagiannopoulos refers to the immigrants’ detention period saying that when this is over the immigrants are free to steal and rob.

According to the report, many police officials that attended the meeting where the Police chief gave his speech found what he said illegal and racist.

It was just yesterday that the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg condemned Greece for the unacceptable and inhumane detention conditions for asylum seekers and political refugees, ordering the country to pay compensations to the plaintiffs.

Translated from ‘Efimerida ton Syntakton’ newspaper, 20/12/2013, online at: http://www.efsyn.gr/?p=160671

Translated from the ancient Greek poem, the Odyssey:

To a man of any intelligence, a stranger, a suppliant, is dear as a brother.

The Greek parliament has voted by a large majority to suspend all state funding to the neonazi Golden Dawn party: here.

Golden Dawn receives support from the United States nazis of the Free America Rally, which says it is opposed to ‘government, media, genocide, liberalism, rationalism, pacifism, consumerism, capitalism, marxism, degeneracy, brigandage, egalitarianism, democracy, usury, & whatever else comes up’: here.

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