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February 13th, 2012 
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Fire destroys the historic Attikon theater block in Athens as protests raged over austerity measures
GreekReporter.com
February 13, 2012
ATHENS – While anarchists warred on the streets with riot police and 40 fires lit up banks, cinemas, and businesses, the Greek Parliament approved more austerity measures designed to keep bringing in international aid to keep the debt-choked country from bankruptcy after interim Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned the alternative was chaos and shortages of food, medicine and fuel. More than 100,000 protesters gathered around the Parliament and the city’s center and it took 6,000 police to keep hooded, Molotov Cocktail-and-rock-tossing anarchists from besieging the building, while most demonstrators resorted to shouting slogans and showing their anger at more pay cuts to go along with tax hikes, slashed pensions and the coming layoffs of 150,000 workers over the next three years.
Thick clouds of smoke and tear gas hung over the city, rising above the Acropolis and the sounds of dozens of stun grenade tear gas canisters, whistles, bells and shouting created a din. In the end, Papademos able to prevail only through the unlikely partnership of holdover ministers from the former ruling PASOK Socialists and their bitter rival New Democracy conservatives who had always voted against the same austerity measures they now approved when former Prime Minister George Papandreou ruled before resigning on Nov. 11, 2011.
The third member of the coalition, the far Right-Wing LAOS party, broke away after its leader, George Karatzaferis, said he objected to the measures he had supported, but two of his members who served in the Cabinet voted against his orders. The measures passed comfortably by a vote of 199-74, despite the defection of 22 PASOK Members of Parliament, 21 from New Democracy, and the two LAOS deputies, all of whom were summarily dismissed by their parties. Five voted present and 22 of the 300 didn’t show up to vote. As the debate went on all afternoon and evening before a 1 a.m. vote on Feb. 13, Greeks saw a curious juxtaposition on their television sets of MP’s arguing their positions on one part of their screen, with the fires and street battles on another.
Read more: Greek Lawmakers Vote Austerity as Athens Burns
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