THE TELEGRAPH: Police in Greece clashed with gangs of youths throwing petrol bombs and stones on Thursday night, a month on from the country's worst civil unrest in decades.
Police officers in central Athens fired tear gas to dispel the rioters, who peeled off from a protest which had been organised in solidarity with a Bulgarian migrant worker who was attacked with acid last month.
Kostadinka Kuneva, 44, a Bulgarian cleaning lady and a union official, is in hospital in a serious condition after the Dec 22 attack by two unidentified men who ambushed her outside her home and threw acid in her face.
The march to the Labour Ministry, which involved about 3,000 demonstrators, had started out peacefully.
Demonstrators carried banners reading "Kostandinka, you're not alone," and "Stop violence against immigrants".
But violence flared when a group of around 30 self-declared anarchists and left-wing activists set rubbish bins alight and smashed paving stones for ammunition to throw at police. >>> By Nick Squires | Friday, January 23, 2009
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