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Greek riots: A friend who was checking out the situation from up close described the people on the street breaking stuff as "undercover police, common law criminals and assorted bums" (but yet another as "the true face of modern disadvantaged proletarian youth bereft of any political ambition whatsoever).

talos: this sort of blond pillaging points to a new and violent "angry youth" with no future, no political ideas and few family ties to constrain it. That this segment crosses even (parental) class lines to a certain extent, is possibly a Greek particularity (?)...

are there any common "profiles" of those who join the ranks of the police in Greece?  are there any socioeconomic and/or ethnic "particularities" about these people?

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco on Wed Dec 10th, 2008 at 09:52:24 AM EST

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