Why? Riots, police shooting, riots... in Greece.

As my grandmother used to say, these things usually end badly.

This one couldn't have been worse: a 15 yrear old got killed by the police, no less.

In Greece it's unacceptable to lose one's life; it's even worse to lose it through police action.

But, unfortunately, it hasn't ended for the victim. In fact, the party has only just begun.

Robbing the grave in their usual manner, Greek television is happily saving money on content by speculating on this unfortunate youth's death. It rarely gets better than this: youth, policemen, and death -- for free!

And then there are more riots.
Why is this happening?

a) Politicians, as other rodents, hope to capitalise. "Yipee!" exclaimed the socialist party spokesman, and patted his communist namesake on the back. They both quickly resumed appropriate gravitas.

b) More importantly and aptly put by an expatriate living in Athens, Greece:
"Children, adolescents are not given any outlet to look forward to, any hope, any vision of a future... somewhere, somehow. Their schools give them no outlet, no direction, no hope for something that is there for them in the future; they live with parents who are living their own dead end.
Youth feels completely closed in and cornered, and ignored ...parents and television don;t offer much. A dream, a vision, something...
Just rules & nothing to look forward to.

So the kids lash out at the only figure of authority that's easily accessible and is newsworthy: the police."

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