The controlled media have excelled themselves once again by simply ignoring the real cause of the violent riots currently sweeping Greece, despite the facts being well-known and distributed via the Press Association newswire. In their coverage to date, the media have all claimed that ‘youths’ are responsible for the violence in Athens and other parts of Greece and that it started after police shot and killed a ‘youth.’
The Press Association however reported a full day ago that the spark which led to the current unrest was caused by asylum seekers rioting after being told that no more applications were being processed that week.
According to the PA report, “Hundreds of migrants waiting to submit asylum applications rioted in central Athens, setting fire to rubbish bins and attacking passing cars.
“Protesters said the riot began when one man fell into a nearby canal after authorities told the crowd that no more applications could be submitted. Only a small number of applications can be submitted each week.
It was not immediately clear how the man fell into the canal. Police said he was injured and was taken by ambulance to a hospital. They said they were investigating the incident.”
The PA report continued: “Outraged asylum-seekers began setting fire to rubbish bins and throwing them into the street, and ripped branches off trees to set them alight. A smaller group threw rocks at passing cars, stopping some vehicles and banging on them with their hands.”
The BBC itself, while refusing to link the current unrest to the asylum seekers, carries a video report dealing with Pakistani asylum seeker unrest in Athens here: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7769071.stm
The actual cause of the unrest — asylum seekers — has so far only been repeated by non-European media such as Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News:
www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/world/10521329.asp?scr=1
The Greek far left, who have in the past been closely allied to the far left in Britain, has now seized upon the initial asylum seeker unrest and started riots of their own, providing the controlled media with a perfect excuse to hide the cause of the violence.
Backgrounder to the situation in Greece: Extract from the October 2008 book, The Immigration Invasion:
In 2008, the mayor of Athens, a socialist from the left-wing Pasok party, Yiannis Sgouros, appealed to the Greek government for help in solving what he called an “explosive problem” in the heart of the capital. “Illegal immigrants are becoming pawns to local drug barons and are forming gangs,” Sgouros wrote in a letter to the Prime Minister. “Something has to change or the area will become an arena for race clashes and gang wars.”
Police figures show that most immigrants arrested on drug-related charges in central Athens in 2008 were from the Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.
Until two decades ago, Greece had virtually no immigrant community of any significance. In the past 20 years, that has changed considerably.
As of 2006, the number of foreigners in an estimated total of 11,148,533 people was 695,979 or 6.24 percent.
By 2008, one out of every ten residents in Greece - and almost one in five in the centre of Athens - was foreign born. The majority of these foreigners came from neighbouring Albania, but just under half came from Third World regions such as West Africa, China, Pakistan and the Middle East.
The total Third World-origin population of Greece, as of 2008, was therefore estimated to be in the region of five percent.
Turkish groups dominate illegal immigration routes and regularly import Asians to Greece. Up to 500 immigrants illegally cross Greek borders each week, and that is only in the Eastern Aegean front of the country. In 2004, it was reported that over one million illegal immigrants were in transit from Turkey towards Western Europe.
In 2007, at least 100 Turks in Greece were arrested and charged with people smuggling, along with several Pakistanis and Iraqis who appeared to be the main source of forged documents.
The extent of Greece’s ’springboard’ status is illustrated by the statistics of illegal immigrant arrests in that country. In the 15-year period up to 2000, some 2.2 million illegal immigrants were detained in Greece, along with 150,000 arrests for narcotic related offences. This figure is astounding when it is borne in mind that Greece’s entire population is a little over 10 million.
In 2006, Greek authorities estimated that about 80,000 illegal immigrants had settled in Greece that year alone, and that the total illegal population could be close to a million in total.
This influx of Africans, Middle Easterners and assorted origins, has transformed many areas of central Athens. It is not uncommon to see street fights between gangs of Afghanis, Iraqis and Africans, with the intensity of the clashes already causing ethnic Greeks to start leaving certain parts of the capital.
Attempts to legalise immigrants in Greece - residence permits were granted to 500,000 undocumented foreigners since 1997 - have failed to solve what has become an ever-growing problem
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