The defendant (his slimeball lawyer probably) published a shocking attack against the dead pupil that left everyone aghast. Soon enough the accusations started to collapse (he tried to present the deceased as a problem child that was expelled from his previous school - something that the school promptly refuted angrily).
Yesterday, Panathinaikos palyed for the champions league at home. Alexis was a fan of the club, and the teams supporters turned the match into a tribute (and so did his team passing to the cup's 16 phase). All the banners were about him, against the police (the chant of "cops, pigs, murderers" was sung many times), and the cop's lawyer was booed when he entered the stadium.
A sign of changing Zeitgeist/love of banks: today I listen to skai radio, Athens most popular news radio, with a center-right slant. The presenter talks with the mayor of Ioannina (in NW Greece) and the conversation gows something a lot like this (from memory):
Presenter: Mr. Mayor the crowd there is more civilized, as we saw. They didn't touch a single person's shop. they just burned a couple of banks and attacked the police station Mayor: Yes, we didn't have these sorts of problems here. The kids were behaved. They just torched two banks and threw rocks against the police, but they left the shops alone...
Brilliant. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
Strangely, around the riot police were groups of masked men throwing stones into the university, something that did not seem to bother the cops next to them at all. I keep on hearing rumours members of the far right Xryse Aygh movement are getting involved but I can't confirm this.
It's very bad quality. He writes
Notice the civilians wearing gas masks and throwing stones at the anarchists in the university just meters from where the riot police are standing.
...but while I can make out the civilians with gas masks, I couldn't recoghnise any instance of stone throwing. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
