20/05/18

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Nationalist mob beats mayor of Thessaloniki

A city official says the mayor of Greece's second-largest city has been hospitalized with head, back and leg injuries after being set upon by nationalist extremists.

Thessaloniki City Council President Calypso Goula said Mayor Yiannis Boutaris was attending a flag-lowering ceremony Saturday in commemoration of the so-called "Pontic Genocide," the killing of ethnic Greeks by the Turks during World War I and the subsequent Greek-Turkish war.

Goula, who also was there, says about a dozen people approached the 75-year-old Boutaris and told him to leave the event, then attacked him with bottles. The mayor is known for his strong anti-nationalist stance.

Goula says Boutaris fell down and was kicked in the head and legs. She says during a church service earlier commemorating the victims, attending politicians were booed.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/228846/article/ekathimerini/news/nationalist-mob-beats-mayor-of-thessaloniki

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UK government plans new legislation to tame internet's 'wild west'
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/19/uk-government-plans-new-laws-tackle-internet-wild-west

 

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-44188589