Greece on Saturday marked the tenth anniversary of a deadly firebomb attack on a bank during anti-austerity riots, as a coronavirus lockdown ...
Share this contentATHENS: Greece on Saturday marked the tenth anniversary of a deadly firebomb attack on a bank during anti-austerity riots, as a coronavirus lockdown raised fears of another recession.
The attack came just three days after the socialist government of George Papandreou signed the first of three eventual bailouts with the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF that would total 350 billion euros. "Tragic incidents like that are not compatible with our democratic tradition nor with the society we are dreaming of," President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said during a ceremony outside the building that housed the bank."I hope we won't experience such manifestations of violence in our country ever again," she said.Earlier this week he had urged the leaders of all parliamentary parties to be present in order to"leave behind the era of division and violence".
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