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miguel
Mexico |
07/12/2008 |
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Is everyone crazy? He was throwing a fire bomb! He deserved to be shot. |
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scott
Canada |
07/12/2008 |
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young boy |
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I am afraid to say, but I agree with Miguel. I never promote violence, but If you're throwing a deadly weapon at people who have been charged with keeping the peace and saftey of everyone else...what do you expect? I believe the officer was worried for his own safety and did what he had to do. what was a fifteen year old boy doing with a fire bomb? Where are his parents? or if not parents, gaurdians? Funny, that if this youth were Arab, it would be called a terroist attack. |
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JB
United States |
07/12/2008 |
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The idiot tried to throw a firebomb at a patrol car. He got what he deserved. |
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Alexi
Netherlands |
07/12/2008 |
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the Greek police are very bad, and always ill-treat the citizens and harass them . I am pretty sure the 15 years old boy is innocent. |
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yan
United Kingdom |
07/12/2008 |
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the kid did not throw a firebomb. That's what the police claims in order to justify their action. |
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Nicol
Greece |
07/12/2008 |
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There are many ways for the police to retaliate and get a situation under control. Unnecessarily shooting and killing a civilian is simply unacceptable...It's disgusting! |
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John
United States |
08/12/2008 |
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Yes, the boy was throwing a fire bomb at a police vehicle. But was this just a random act or an expression of deeper political tensions in Greece ? I don't know the answer. |
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elena
Greece |
08/12/2008 |
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...21st century greece |
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there was no firebomb...it was st Nikolas day and the boy was with his friends celebrating some other boy's nameday.the cop acted like a bully and shot the boy straight in the heart just to show "who is the man"..the riot is not anarchists Vs police.it is citizens Vs the oppressive State.looters are just taking advantage of the situation.dont get misled.it is a fight for basic dignity |
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olfa
Greece |
09/12/2008 |
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Police shooting sparks Greece riots |
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There's was no fire bomb and the child did not do what the police said many witnesses assure that the police was provoqued and the he aimed in a cold blood way to kill the boy or any one! The proof also is that yesterday night i was there in the demonstrations and no police tried to protect not people neither the propperties of other people ! their aim was to make the hole country turn the head, focus on the damages to forget about the violence of the police and the fazilure of this goverment! |
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olfa
Greece |
09/12/2008 |
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Police shooting sparks Greece riots |
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The police here in Greece are violent they fear no body and this goverment is corupted! for those who are against the boy i ask if the know about ather 3 kids yesterday in Sintagma were beaten by the police violently? 15yo, 11yo and a girl who was asking for help! 11 police gothered on 15 yo boy with some boots on his neck!then they were beating the girl on a the glass of a shop? all these people are wrong and the police is always vitim? who rases violence in this country this is the question? |
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Eleni
Greece |
09/12/2008 |
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I knew the boy. He was in my school and he was the brother of a friend of mine. My friends were with him when the incident happened and I can assure you that he just threw a bottle of water on their car for fun. Then the police offiser attacked him verbally and when the boy told him that there is nothing he can do to him (the offecer to the boy) he pulled the gun aimed at him and shot him.
Do you still think that the boy deserved it? |
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Pena
Indonesia |
10/12/2008 |
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Riots in Greece |
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Firebomb? no way..if there was firebomb being thrown away, i believe that the victims were not only the boy..
He didnt do it...and i really feel sorry for it, cause it shouldnt be happen again like the one we had in Indonesia back to 1998.
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B. Mounteer
United States |
12/12/2008 |
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My wife and I were in Greece the first five days of the riots. I have to admit that we are not educated about the political issues that lead up to these riots. But I can say that the distruction that we witnessed was very troublesome. Here is a country that is already having economic problems and now because of these riots there are over 400 large and small business burnned and thousands of more people out of work just before X-mass. Maybe someone can help us understand why they chose this |
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Athena King
Canada |
12/12/2008 |
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greek riots outta control... |
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STOP...the madness, Athens looks like a warzone. The damage has gone far beyond the issue. PEACE....isn't that what all you activists are always raving about, set the example. Joy to the world folks it's Christmas time.
Change your attitude s to change the world. |
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Michael
Greece |
07/12/2008 |
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Police Shooting in Greece |
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Police Shooting against any one, is an unacceptable action in Democratic Greece |
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Fidel
Greece |
07/12/2008 |
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There was no fire bomb, no gang. 3 kids attacked verbally the cops and one of them gets shot. There is a resident's video and witnesses to confirm the story. |
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Amaro Magenta
Venezuela |
08/12/2008 |
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Policeman has been charged with murder |
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Quick news is alwasy uncomplete news, and quick opinion based on quick news may make you murder-friendly. This is what has happened both to "miguel" from Mexico and "scott" from Canada, regardless of they being peaceloving or fascist minded. A few hours after the news spread, the policeman responsible for the killing of the boy has been charged with intended murder. Even if the boy was throwing a molotov bomb - these can hardly kill policemen at work , as videos of the riots clearly show. |
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Paul Christie
United States |
08/12/2008 |
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Greek Riots |
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Dear friends at Al Jazeera, please don't follow the lead of the establishment media and report what 'government sources' or 'officials' state.
Media has to be the watchdog of governments.
We have to assume that all governments lie to protect their positions in power. Would they admit to shooting an unarmed 15 year old?
Hardly.
If you are going to give the government line then please make sure to interview witnesses to get the other side.
There are ALWAYS two sides.
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Jason
Greece |
08/12/2008 |
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Boy got Murdered |
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I'm surprised that you are so badly misinformed! According to all existing evidence and testimonies from eye witnesses, rioting took place in the Exarchia Area of Athens, a police patrol car drove by, and the riots through stones at them. The patrol car with 2(!) police officers pulled up and according to the officers, they tried to make some arrests from the 30+ people that were present. The 15-year-old boy verbally attacked the cops, and one of them shot him 2 times! |
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Rodoula Kyvelou-Kokkaliari
Greece |
09/12/2008 |
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first of all I learned not from the news that the boy threw a bottle. Whatever he did you don't have the right to shoot someone in the heart. You are not god to judge who is going to die. I know the area that the children where and I know the police in greece. In conclusion they are just murderers. And scott in greece is different than in canada (I am in canada right now) we go out till late and we learn by our own experience I used to go out till late that doesn't mean that I have been shot. |
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Jamie
Australia |
09/12/2008 |
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ok i believe after reading this that he didnt throw a fire bomb. it easy to fake verbally but not on a video. But the government apologized and the officers were charged. That kind of thing happens right or not, police (and other officals) get obsessed with power and think they can do what they want. this has been proven, its not just an opinion. Thats why stuff like this happens. Im not trying to justify the actions but it does happen. I think all are in the wrong the police rioters and the boy |
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Nikos
Greece |
09/12/2008 |
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The poor boy did not throw a single molotov cocktail at the cops. They verbally attacked them and threw a bottle. Then the cops run away, parked the car and returned on foot to shoot him. The cop responsible has been charged with assassination with intentionally rade. |
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Gavin
Canada |
10/12/2008 |
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Naturally we aren't getting the whole story. My greek wife read from a greek news site that the teen threw a emtpy bottle at a cop car. The cops got out of the car and shot the kid, with witnesses all around. Soon after other police arrived and began threatening all the witnesses and telling them they didn't see anything. That's why the riots started |
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Manos
Greece |
10/12/2008 |
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Dear all,
please be informed for the real info about this story and do not criticise, even judge people where violence (in our case, governmental violence) hold them a place into 'eternity book' in a society where is trying to 'sweep all the unnecessities 'beneath the rug'.
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Tim
United States |
12/12/2008 |
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I don't know much about police in Greece but from what I hear and have seen now they are abusive. However retaliating against the police shooting him with riots is just as bad or worse. Not only does in not solve anything it just Causes more problems and more violence. Of course people have a right to be angry but that does not give them the right to just go out and start attacking police officers. |
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Star
Canada |
12/12/2008 |
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boy got shot...OLD NEWS |
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the cop got chareged, so let it go instead of destroying the city for everyone else. Bad cop good cop should not be a reason to set a warzone in Athens. All you punks are ruining it for everyone else. PEACE BE WITHIN YOU. |
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BIG
Canada |
12/12/2008 |
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cop got charged, its done whats wit the mess |
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The kid for sure was a hoodlum or involved in a hoodlum act, why would the cop risk his badge for a 15 year old in a public place.....think about it. Take a deep breath .... and let it go....
It's lookin sick in Athens right now. Drop it like its HOT kidz. Get up wit cleaning the city n makin pretty 4 XMAS. |
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