Violent Riots by Radical networks speading due to the Financial Collapse

www.LaRouchePAC.com Violent Unrest in Greece Points Toward Europe-wide Strategy of Tension PARIS, December, 8 (LPAC)--Greece seems to be the test-tube for a revived ``strategy of tension,'' using chaos and violence to make any dignified economic and political reform impossible. Violent riots are spreading like wildfire from Athens to the rest of the country, after the police shot and killed a fifteen year old student Saturday Dec. 6 when a group of thirty rioters attacked a police patrol car. The Greek prime minister tried unsuccessfully to calm down the situation by promising that there would be ``no indulgency'' towards the policeman, who was immediately indicted for his act. 34 persons got wounded when masked rioters, the ``koukoulofori,'' relentlessly kept attacking police forces for their ``arbitrary'' behavior, smashing shops and buildings belonging to state institutions. This behavior is an echo of the terror wave which swept Europe in 2001, with the Genoa riots. And it is clear that the terror networks, in Greece and out, were primed to go into action in response to the getting a ``martyr.'' Already on Dec. 3, an explosive was thrown against the Athens office of Agence France Presse (AFP) by a group calling themselves the ``Cell of Conspiracy of Fire,'' claimed to have been done ``in solidarity with our French comrades,'' a clear reference to those of the ``invisible cell'' of Coupat, suspected in the TGV sabotage operations. On the morning of Dec. 7, under the slogan ``Against a state that assassinates, let's demonstrate against the dictatorship of fear,'' 5,000 demonstrators took off from the highly symbolic site of the Athens Polytechnic School, where the Greek colonels' regime crushed the student revolts of 1973. As Lyndon LaRouche pointed out in his statement on the Mumbai terror, this upsurge occurs in a highly ignitable situation, specifically the economic disaster. As we previous reported, Greece' health system is completely blowing up since the government stopped paying the state health insurance fund. Over last week, police systematically threw out nurses, doctors and health personnel trying to enter the health ministry to get overdue payment of their salaries. Observers also underline that the riots came three days before a national strike planned on Dec. 10, when, the first time ever, all the trade-unions pledged to form a common front.