{"id":13503,"date":"2010-05-05T11:15:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13503"},"modified":"2010-05-05T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:15:53","slug":"war-zone-athens-three-people-dead-many-buildings-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13503","title":{"rendered":"War-Zone Athens: three people dead, many buildings burning as general strike march turns into a battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by <a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"http:\/\/libcom.org\/user\/taxikipali\">taxikipali<\/a>, libcom.org, 5 May 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three people have suffocated to death as a  result of a fire in Marfin Bank during ongoing battles between  anti-measure protesters and police in Athens.<\/p>\n<p>The Athens protest march marking the zenith of the general strike  called for the 5th of May was attended by an approximate 200,000 (20,000  which is the foreign broadcast number referring to the PAME march  alone), although because of lack of media coverage due to the media  participation in the general strike no concrete estimates can be made.  After the PAME (Communist Party union) protesters left Syntagma square,  the first lines of the main march started arriving before the Parliament  with the first clashes erupting at the end of Stadiou street. The march  then walked on the Unknown Soldier grounds leading the Presidential  Guard to retreat, and attempted to storm the Parliament but was pushed  back by riot police forces which today demonstrated a particularly  staunch attitude and resolve against the demonstrators. Soon battles  erupted around the Parliament with protesters throwing Molotov cocktails  and rocks, with one riot police armored van torched, and the police  responding by extended use of tear gas that soon made Athens\u2019 atmosphere  unbearably acrid. As more blocks reached Syntagma square, the battles  spread across the city center and lasted for more than five hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/libcom.org\/news\/war-zone-athens-three-people-dead-many-buildings-burning-general-strike-march-turns-battle-\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by taxikipali, libcom.org, 5 May 2010 Three people have suffocated to death as a result of a fire in Marfin Bank during ongoing battles between anti-measure protesters and police in Athens. The Athens protest march marking the zenith of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13503\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3vN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13507,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503\/revisions\/13507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}