Crvena_Zvezda wrote:
Who was the woman sitting on the table?
A target of the hooligans’ threat was also the professor [Riki Van Boeschoten]*, a Dutch woman who teaches ethnology at [Volos University]* and is a major supporter of the recognition of Macedonian human rights in Greece. One of the attackers threatened to beat her, though the threat did not result in a physical attack.
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Shouts of “traitors,” “this is Greece,” “everyone out,” “Vaskopulos, leave,” threats, and circulation of propaganda material from the Greek ultra-nationalists of the organization “Golden Dawn” obstructed the promotion of a Greek-Macedonian dictionary in Athens the night before last. Some ten minutes after the beginning of the presentation at the International Press Center, located next to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Greece, dozens of members of this fascist organization stormed the hall, threatening the participants.
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Also noteworthy is that the promotion was held in a building right next to the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and yet the police were very late in arriving, to the extent that was a serious risk more people were going to be hurt. My scholarship counselor in the United States, who grew up in Greece, pointed out to me while I was there that police response time in Greece is generally very poor. Nonetheless, it seems inconceivable that there was no presence of security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that could have quickly acted to break up the attack.