χούντα στην Ελλάδα

From today on, I have no doubt: Greece is under a dictatorship regime. Nowadays in the streets in the area of Exarchia, Athens, the policemen are about to be more than the people walking around. On certain nights policemen enter bars, cafes or apartments, they search for anything that could potentially used as a weapon, and arrest people simply for their presence in Exarchia.

After the panhellenic mass demonstrations against the mass demonstrations for education and against the police violence, which were not accompanied by any violent side-events by the demonstrators, the police special forces attempted to arrest groups of demonstrators for NO reason.

In particular, in Athens, a group of the demonstrators were ruled out in Aeschylus St. The policemen started by attacking an old lady, so that the common sense arouses people to react. The people who were about to be arrested entered a small shop, whose owner called forth the police to arrest him instead of the young students in his shop. Other people followed his example and asked the policemen: "How many arrests did they order you for today? We will gather as many as you want, but let the rest of the kids go away." Some lawyers who arrived to Aeschylus St. to help the people embattled in the little shop told the policemen that what they attempted to do was illegal, i.e. to arrest people without them having done anything.

The policemen did not reply back neither to the people who were asking to be arrested instead of the demonstrators nor to the lawyers. Of course. No single space for critical thinking. Just following orders.

Those incidents are shown in the video embedded above. Unfortunately there are no english subtitles. If I find the actual video (and not only embedded), I will be able to put subtitles on my own. In this case or if I find the video with subtitles, I will update the link.