>>88
Actualy, 'he' will reply with a true story that anyone capable of using a translator can understand and double check. It is the story of the forum owner I mentioned earlier. (
>>86)
This guy (he's 64yo now and his name is panagiotis bixos) is a musician and he was working in a hotel in a greek island. At some point he noticed that the hotel owner was involved in human trafficking and that the head of police of the island was part of the gang. Since he couldn't go to the local police station, he came to athens and sued the trafficking gang. What happened next is that the cop and the rest of the gang was found innocent after intimidating the witnesses.
Later on, the police raided the guy's appartment and charged him for child pornography. It was a badly rigged trial didn't pass through court so panagiotis was found innocent. The police tried to base all the accusations on policemen's testimonies that they saw 'proof' but even though even now, 12 years later they still have the hard drives, they haven't managed to provide the courts of any proof of child pornography. The prosecutor didn't accept the court testimony and somehow brought it back to court for a second and a third time. Greece was found guilty a couple of months ago for failing to provide him with a fair trial but panagiotis still has to go through courts every now and then, only to be found innocent. He is economicaly exhausted, he got cancer and heart disease from worrying too much and the only reason he's still with us is because of the support of hundreds of people that think this is proposterous and support him in every way they can (from legal support, to money to support the forum servers).
I tried to find news articles in english for his story but didn't find any. Still there are hundreds of articles in greek that you can translate on google.
Second true story: The struggle of the citizens of keratea. A place just outside athens where the government decided to build a dump. The government, clearly serving the interests of the rich against the poor are trying to built a kind of dump that will be illegal under EU regulations in 2 years time in land that still belongs to to private owners and hasn't yet bought. The government sent the contractor with his excavators followed by dozens of teams of riot police to protect the excavators from the rightful owners of the land. The people of the village have united in a common struggle to protect their place from the illegal activities of the government. They took the case to court and asked for protective measures which was granted. Still, the government didn't not pull the riot police away and the contractor did not remove his buldozers from the private land. Instead, the police broke the citizens' cars and gave them parking tickets even though they were parked legally. This was the reaction of the citizens of keratea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnV-Md8OchA
Oh, and I forgot to mention that the riot police beat up the citizens on the first day, inluding breaking the head of the mayor of keratea.
Anyway, you can look up the validity of all i'm saying by simply typing keratea or κερατεα on youtube. You'll find hundreds of hours or rioting between normal citizens and riot police. Footage that no news network will show.