Greece has long tolerated a violent Anarchist movement to fester within its borders. The end result of that is a criminal enterprise large enough to make it impossible for authorities there to maintain basic law and order for all. Two Greek police officers were attacked by a mob of Anarchists and were forced to defend themselves, leading to the death of a teen Anarchist. Greece is now, in the face of a massive wave of violence, bowing to the Anarchists’ demands of punishing the cops in a clear display of impotence that will further embolden violence against police officers:

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – The fatal police shooting of a teenager has set off Greece’s worst rioting in years, with hooded youths rampaging through Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki over the weekend.

Gangs smashed stores, torched cars and erected burning barricades in the streets of the Greek capital and the country’s second largest city in a dramatic eruption of a long-tolerated self-styled anarchist movement.

Rioting began in several cities within hours of the death of a 15-year-old who was shot Saturday night in Exarchia, a downtown Athens district of bars, music clubs and restaurants that is seen as the anarchists’ home base. Soon dozens of stores, banks and cars were ablaze. Police said 24 policemen were injured, and one remained in hospital on Sunday morning.

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Police said the two officers involved claimed they were attacked by a group of youths, and that three gunshots and a stun grenade were fired in response.

The two officers have been suspended, arrested and charged, one with premeditated manslaughter and the illegal use of a weapon, and the other as an accomplice. They are to appear before a court Wednesday. The Exarchia precinct police chief has been suspended.

A blurry video shot by a bystander from a nearby balcony that purportedly shows the incident has been shown on local television and posted on the Internet. Two sounds that could be gunshots can be heard, but the image is too blurry and distant to show the sequence of events clearly.

Pavlopoulos and Deputy Interior Minister Panagiotis Chinofotis submitted their resignations after Saturday’s rioting, but they were not accepted by the prime minister.

The violence died down Sunday morning, only to begin again as afternoon demonstrations in Athens and Thessaloniki to protest the boy’s death degenerated into running battles between Molotov cocktail-throwing youths and riot police firing tear gas.

In Thessaloniki, protesters attacked City Hall, two police precincts, several shops and a bank, as well Greek television channel vehicles.

Dozens of stores in central Athens went up in flames or saw their storefronts smashed. At least two buildings were destroyed by fire, as was a Ford car dealership. Streets were littered with jagged chunks of paving stones and rocks thrown at riot police, as well as shattered glass from storefronts and banks.

The rioters’ own behavior should prove that it is likely the two police officers were telling the truth. That the government cannot keep order, and that they bow to the will of those who they should be fighting tooth and nail, shows that Greece has relinquished its right to exist to an army of people who will continue to drag the state into a dark age.

The police of Greece should quit their jobs and flee to another country before the Anarchists come to power and purge them. Any decent person living there should make their way to America where if someone tries burns your home you’re allowed to kill them (except in New York and Los Angeles) and where we still hold out hope of having a civil society in the future.

Update: Bloomberg reports riots are still ongoing, Z.A.C. explains why the Reds in charge of Greece are siding with the rioters and how this is connected to Pakistani terrorism.

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