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Serbia condemns firebomb attack on Greek embassy in Belgrade
Serbian president Boris Tadic.
Serbian president Boris Tadic has described as "intolerable" a firebomb attack, for which self-styled anarchists have claimed responsibility, on the Greek embassy in Belgrade.
The incident on August 25 2009 caused minor damage, including a broken window and fire damage to the façade of the building.
Five people were seen fleeing the scene, according to eyewitnesses.
Serbian media reported Tadic as saying in a meeting with Greek ambassador Demestenis Stoidis that everything would be done to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
The attack was earlier also condemned by the Serbian foreign ministry.
A group calling itself Crni Ilija e-mailed a statement to Belgrade media taking responsibility for the attack, Serbia’s B92 said. The group said that "Belgrade Anarchists" wanted a "comrade" Thodoros Iliopoulos freed, saying that he had been on hunger strike for 46 days after being arrested "during a national uprising in Greece in December of last year".
"We will continue these activities until our comrade Iliopoulos is released," the statement said.
The incident on August 25 2009 caused minor damage, including a broken window and fire damage to the façade of the building.
Five people were seen fleeing the scene, according to eyewitnesses.
Serbian media reported Tadic as saying in a meeting with Greek ambassador Demestenis Stoidis that everything would be done to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
The attack was earlier also condemned by the Serbian foreign ministry.
A group calling itself Crni Ilija e-mailed a statement to Belgrade media taking responsibility for the attack, Serbia’s B92 said. The group said that "Belgrade Anarchists" wanted a "comrade" Thodoros Iliopoulos freed, saying that he had been on hunger strike for 46 days after being arrested "during a national uprising in Greece in December of last year".
"We will continue these activities until our comrade Iliopoulos is released," the statement said.
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Just a word of friendly advice to everybody (except Valeri, who gets it right first time !) - do try Wikipedia for initial historical facts before posting.
True, each Wiki item needs to be assessed on its own merits and is not necessarily 100% correct, but equally it is never 100% wrong either. Most of the entries I have looked at have been accurate at rather over the 95% "confidence level", as statisticians would say. And a few of them have been spot-on accurate at 100% level !
Use Wiki carefully, and [...]
Read the full comment you can never be proved wrong ! Is that sufficient of an attraction, Peggy (and others) ?
(And no, Wiki don't pay me a commission !!)
Peggy - there is a very slight distinction (which may have escaped you) between the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church. Indeed, the latter was very heavily persecuted by the Roman Imperial Authorities (remember all the stories about the Christians and the lions in the Colosseum ?) as Mithraism was the official (later)religion of Rome, not Christianity. The earlier religion worshipped the pantheon of Greek gods, suitably re-named, plus of course the Emperor. (Emperor Diocletian indeed carried out a particularly thorough massacre of Christians in the years 303-311 AD.)
All this changed with the conversion [...]
Read the full comment to Christianity of the Emperor Constantine in AD 312. But Constantine also moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium at much the same time, so any link between the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church was never established or consolidated (and no serious historian would ever try to establish one !)
Which brings me to the gentle suggestion that you might wish to "brush up" (i.e. look at the books or even Wikipedia) your knowledge of history before posting again on issues involving it.
Epam, if Germany was not subdued by the Romans how do you explain Martin Luther?
Who ruled there with an iron fist?
Roman Catholic Church until Martin Luther decided enough of that and created his own religion.
Actually, Aries, on second thoughts, when you say:
<<there is no nation in
the whole known world that has not been subdued by the Romans even Britain was up to thre Hadrian Walls in Scotland I believe. >>
you are not entirely correct. Scotland and Ireland were never subdued by the Romans, nor was Germany, nor was Poland or Denmark, and nor was the USA !
With the greatest possible respect, what kind of history DO they teach you in Greek schools ? It seems to [...]
Read the full comment be a bit Hellenocentric, to put it mildly.
Aries - fair point, but Greek Master did manage to get all his historical facts badly wrong: it just ain't +/- 4000 years of unbroken and continuous history, which seems to be the myth propagated in Greek schools. Please tell me in specifics how I am wrong.
Epaminondas
hi, there
With all respects.we have beeen through this pure ant-helleenic crap of yours a long time ago.
please once more get hold of yoursellf there is no nation in
the whole known world that has not been subdued by the Romans even Britain was up to thre Hadrian Walls in Scotland I believe.
civilisations and empires which overlaped themselves in a given territory existed. that certainly does not mean that the previous
never existed.
Today we mention the Celts as much as we mention [...]
Read the full comment the Romans!
we mention the Ptolemies as we mention the Pharaohs
We mention the Etruscs as we mention The Persians
ansd so on.
I know that you can do better than this!!!!! even provoked by some semi-ignorants.
Greek Master - haven't you got your history slightly wrong ? Pericles and his Athens only existed 2500 years ago, not 4000 (even Mycaenae was only 2800 years ago).
Secondly, from 146 BC until 1453 AD Greece was subsumed into the Roman (later Byzantine) Empire, and subsequently by the Ottoman Empire until 1832. So,my simple Sony calculator tells me this is only 500 independent years for Greece at most, not 4000.
And as for being the mother-country of European principles, how about the Greek Civil War of 1946-49, in which 10% of [...]
Read the full comment the Greek population died ? Or the later regime of the Colonels ? Greece was only admitted into the EU in 1981 for over-riding geopolitical reasons : economically and politically it passed none of the tests for membership. (I know as I was there !)
Greece is by far the best balkan country. Member of EU since 1981, a glorious history of 4000 years and the mother country of Europe principles. The other countries are ridiculous...
What idiots. This Ilija is ok.
sam
do define anarchista
Even the embassies of Serbia's allies aren't safe in Belgrade. After the burning of the US embassy last year and this incident the Serbian government really needs to step in to improve the safety of embassy staff working in Belgrade.
The Greek Government is doing much worse in their own country, and it is up to us to hold them accountable because the governments of this world certainly won't.
These people have my support and the support of other Anarchists throughout the world.
There are idiots in every country.
These idiots who did this should be thrown in jail for a long time.