Police Raid in Athens
Athens / Greece (RNC Agency) 26.10.1996
For the second time in an Athens district where mainly Roma live anexagerated police action took place in the form of a massive raid which stormed the Roma Ghetto by a special anti-terror commando trupe who were heavily armed.The huts of the Roma were demolished by the police-and shooting their weapons in the air and at cars thus terrorising the Roma. According to police information, they were hunting a drug-dealer.Thomas Filipidis /Romnews corrspondent in Athens. Commented, the kind of police raid was more reminiscent of a racist attack on the Roma and not a normal police raid as the police claim.