{"id":2964,"date":"2013-01-19T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.be\/Home\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2013-01-19T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T11:00:18","slug":"double-standards-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/double-standards-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Double standards in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Greek authorities consider squatters a\u00a0bigger threat to\u00a0society than the rising fascist movement.<\/strong><br \/>\nRecently, the Greek authorities have lashed out against progressive grass root\u00a0organisations: On December 28th the police shut down the Athens university radio station <a href=\"http:\/\/radio98fm.org\/index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">98FM<\/a>, after invading the <a href=\"http:\/\/villa-amalias.blogspot.gr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Villa Amalia\u00a0squat<\/a> on 20 December. More recently, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keeptalkinggreece.com\/2013\/01\/09\/athens-after-villa-amalia-new-police-operation-against-skaramangas-squat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Skaramangas&#8221; squat was raided <\/a>as well.\u00a0 We talk to <strong>Areti<\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entasifm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Entasi\u00a0radio<\/a>. \u00a0She explains that although the community radio stations and squats were not officially recognised they had been tolerated. The authorities now\u00a0use\u00a0the current crisis to &#8221; restore legality&#8221; and eliminate places of resistance against the current government policies.<br \/>\nThe strict interpretation of the law\u00a0does not seem to\u00a0be applied to the hate crimes committed by members and sympathisers of the national-socialist (i.e. nazi)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_Dawn_(Greece)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden Dawn<\/a> party. Areti explains that she has experienced how the police\u00a0refused to interfere during racist neo-nazi attacks.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/dawn-of-a-new-danger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Others<\/a> also point to the historical ties between the security forces and fascist movement in Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek authorities consider squatters a\u00a0bigger threat to\u00a0society than the rising fascist movement. Recently, the Greek authorities have lashed out against progressive grass root\u00a0organisations: On December 28th the police shut down the Athens university radio station 98FM, after invading the Villa Amalia\u00a0squat on 20 December. More recently, the &#8220;Skaramangas&#8221; squat was raided as well.\u00a0 We talk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/double-standards-in-greece\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Double standards in Greece<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[390,468,471],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europa","tag-fascism","tag-golden-dawn","tag-griekenland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}