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Roma teen shot dead by Greek police in altercationAround midnight on Saturday, 11 November, Greek police shot a 17-year-old Romani boy after a car chase in the town of Thebes, north of Attica.According to media reports, the car, with four passengers, two boys and two girls aged 15-17, failed to stop when ordered. In the ensuing pursuit, the car was surrounded by police in a dead-end alley in the Liontari village. Witnesses said a gun shot was heard, fatally wounding the 17-year-old. The police claim that one of the underage passengers tried to snatch the policeman’s gun which ‘went off’ killing the boy.The victim’s brother claimed that it was the policeman who fired the gun.
Third Roma Youth in Three Years Dies After Greece Police PursuitIn December, 2022 there were angry outbursts in the Roma community around Thessaloniki when 16-year-old Kostas Frangoulis, who was married and had a young child, was shot in the head by a police officer during a chase over an unpaid gas station bill.Another Roma youth was killed in 2021 near the port of Piraeus, also in a police pursuit after police said the 18-year-old driving it tried to run over five police motorcycles chasing him which then led to them firing and killing him.
Cameron makes shock return to government as Sunak sacks BravermanSuella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary and former prime minister David Cameron has been named foreign secretary in a major Cabinet reshuffle.In a highly unusual move, Rishi Sunak asked Mr Cameron to return to government and appointed him to the House of Lords so this could be achieved.
Police officer faces criminal charges over murder of 17-year-old RomaThe police officer who shot and killed the 17-year-old Roma boy on Saturday night was criminally prosecuted for manslaughter with intent on Monday. The defendant claims that the young man tried to take his gun, which then went off causing his death. In addition to the three minors who were passengers in the car with the victim, other eyewitnesses have also testified.
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Syriza’s bad Sunday: Greece’s main opposition cracks upDozens of members of the left-wing party split off in a rancorous party meeting over the weekend, feuding with new leader Stefanos Kasselakis.Crushed by the outright election win of conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in June, which sparked the resignation of its charismatic leader Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s main opposition party Syriza is now cracking up, with an exodus of dozens of members over the weekend.The radical left-wing party gained Europe-wide notoriety at the peak of the financial crisis in 2015 when it looked as if Tsipras and his Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis were about to lead Athens out of the eurozone in a game of high-stakes brinkmanship with German-led debt hawks in the EU.Eight years on, the party now appears to be on its last legs. The unlikely election of ex-Goldman Sachs banker Stefanos Kasselakis as Syriza leader has infuriated a large segment of the party core, which sees him as out of touch with Greece and its left. His meteoric rise from obscurity; his lack of a political agenda; the media tittle-tattle around his American nurse husband; the couple’s Cartier rings; and Kasselakis’ trips to the gym have all rankled his critics inside the party.Greece’s left has already fragmented into several small parties, two of them founded by former Syriza officials; that number seems destined to grow.
Kasselakis won the leadership election that followed Syriza's defeat at the polls in September. A political neophyte and US resident, with no connection to the party before he became a candidate for the May election, he came out of nowhere to win the contest. A four-minute video in which he told his life story shot him to prominence and made him the favorite.Kasselakis’ style, based on social media presence and charisma, and his past as a former Goldman Sachs employee and shipowner, rankled with old-school leftists, who were also incensed with some of his positions, such as advocating stock options for employees, and his overall ideological vagueness.
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