Workers Revolutionary Party Athens university students march last Wednesday demanding the scrapping of a law that imposed armed riot police in campuses and buildings
Credit: Marios Lolos
THE MASS protest marches in Greece against the sheer police violence and oppression have been developing all last week into an insurgency against the dictatorial rule of the Kyriakos Mitsotakis government.
Following last Tuesday’s huge march and street battles between youth and armed riot police in the Nea Smyrni Athens residential area, university students staged mass militant marches in the centre of Athens last Wednesday and in Thessaloniki twice in a single day last Thursday.
Greek state charges pregnant refugee on Lesbos who attempted suicide with arson
The hellish situation in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos is increasingly driving refugee children and adults to commit suicide. Three weeks ago, the attempted suicide of a heavily pregnant woman from Afghanistan evoked shock and horror across the globe.
On February 21, a Sunday, the 26-year-old refugee brought her three small children to safety and then set herself on fire in her tent. The fire was extinguished in time by other camp residents and the pregnant woman was saved. She was taken to hospital in the island’s capital Mytilini with severe burn injuries to her hands, feet and head.
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It was earlier mentioned that the woman set fire to herself after finding out she could not travel to Germany with others that had been given asylum due to being in the final phase of her pregnancy.
Investigating magistrate Nikos Triantafyllos said: When she was told she couldn’t travel, her distress and disappointment were such she attempted suicide.
It follows a series of fires at a separate camp, Moria, last year that left more than 12,000 asylum seekers homeless in September.
A view of the new temporary refugee camp with tents. The Karatepe, Kara Tepe or Mavrovouni refugee camp was built after the fire in the Moria facility
Woman who set herself on fire in Lesbos refugee camp charged with arson Helena Smith in Athens
A pregnant Afghan woman who was severely injured when she set herself on fire in a refugee camp on Lesbos has been formally charged with arson and destruction of public property after giving testimony to a prosecutor from her hospital bed.
The 26-year-old, who is due to give birth next week, was told she would face trial for her actions and be unable to leave Greece. She has not been publicly identified.
“Although she was in a lot of pain because of her burns and found it difficult to speak, the testimony at the hospital in Mytilene lasted for around two and a half hours,” her lawyer Teresa Volakaki told the Guardian.