Strife-Torn Greece Begins to Show Signs of Calm - by RACHEL DONADIO and ANTHEE CARASSAVA
Life in Athens slowly returned to normal on Thursday following five days of disturbances and a general strike Wednesday. No major demonstrations were planned for the first time since Saturday, when a teenage boy was fatally shot by the police, setting off riots in the capital and other major cities that left hundreds of stores damaged and dozens of people injured. Small groups of students staged some protests, attacking police stations in Athens with rocks and bottles, the Greek media reported. Sporadic obstruction of traffic by youths was also expected.
“Things are a scale or two lower today,” said Panayotis Stathis, the national police spokesman. “There is a gradual de-escalation, and that’s how things will be going.”
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