Word: exarchia
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...clashes took place in the square and the surrounding streets as police used tear gas to break up a large group of protestors throwing rocks at the Parliament building. Later in the afternoon clashes resumed in downtown Athens with youth groups barricaded in the Athens Polytechnic School, near the Exarchia district, setting up roadblocks outside the school and burning cars and bus stops...
...Athens police, the Exarchia neighborhood is enemy territory. A perennial sanctuary for the capital's marginalized far-left youth, the central district has been the scene of sporadic anti-government violence for years...
...clashes rarely grow as big as those that have wracked Greece for the past two days. They began when police shot dead a 15-year-old boy in Exarchia on the night of Saturday Dec. 6. That killing sparked riots that spread to at least a dozen towns and cities across the country and have so far left 67 people injured, including 37 police officers. Protesters have destroyed at least 17 banks and set fire to dozens of shops and cars. It is the worst political violence in Greece in 17 years. (See pictures of the riots in Greece...
...aggressive rioters are believed to be anarchists, who trace their roots back to the resistance movement which took on Greece's military Junta between 1967 and 1974. Though democracy was restored to Greece in 1974, that earlier generation has continued to hold a fascination amongst the far-left fringe. Exarchia is close to the Polytechnic School of Athens, whose gates were crushed by the military to break up a student uprising in Nov. 1973. That incident inspired the Marxist terrorist outfit November 17, which killed 23 people in targeted assassinations before being dismantled...
...kind of Greek lute - became the sound of the urban underclass, with sharp, poignant lyrics about prison life, drugs and, during the military dictatorship of the 1960s and '70s, politics. Fans show their appreciation by throwing flowers, usually gardenias. Bring a bunch to Taximi, on 29 Isavron Street, Exarchia, tel: (30-210) 363 9919, where black-and-white photos of rembetika's finest performers invoke the spirit of the genre's origins. Patrons take their music seriously, with old-timers in pinstripes dancing until dawn...
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