See also : Protesters arrested at Greek embassy in London, LONDON (AFP)
Gang Storms London Greek Embassy
Sky News
December 8, 2008
Up to a hundred protesters are held in a stand-off with police after trying to storm the Greek embassy in London.
Demonstrators tore down the Greek flag from the building in Holland Park and set it on fire.
The action follows three days of riots in Greece sparked by the killing by police of a 15-year-old boy.
Sky’s Leah Borromeo, who is at the embassy, said the group was there “to show solidarity with the dead teenager”.
“This anarchist group has adopted him as a martyr, and has raised an anarchy flag over the embassy,” she said.
The protesters, who had earlier marched from Hyde Park, were chanting, singing and jeering, while police had set up two cordons around the building, she said.
In Greece, riots flared in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities after the shooting of Alexandros Andreas Grigoropoulos in Exarchia.
How unGreek!
Greek Embassy in Berlin also occupied!
How unGerman!
athens.indymedia.org overloaded…
Wow. Jaw-dropped. Wow.
Talk about rolling the dice.
Athens Indymedia is back up, but it’s all greek to me.
Oh dear.
“rolling the dice”? is good?
I just mean they are taking a big risk. More power to them. So yes it is good… I think…
Big ups from me!
its awesome all right @ndy, good to see full on direct action in solidarity and not another meaningless symbolic solidarity ‘protest’