Greek Protester Throws Shoe at Prime Minister

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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this year.

Possibly taking a cue about resistance from the beloved Iraqi journalist who chucked his shoes at George W. Bush back in 2008, a 49-year-old doctor has thrown a piece of his own footwear at Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in protest of the government’s economic austerity measures. —JCL

CNN:

A 49-year-old doctor was arrested Saturday for throwing a shoe at Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in protest of the government’s austerity measures.

The shoe missed its intended target and the man, identified as radiologist Stergios Pravazeris, was taken to a local police station along with his 15-year-old daughter and farmer Stavros Vitalis, who was with the pair at the time. Police said that all three have been released.

Pravazeris told Greek media that he is a member of a newly founded activist group called The Patriotic Front (PAM), which protests government policies.

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By Shamemen, September 12, 2010 at 7:47 am Link to this comment

I hope you know what you are supporting. Papandreou’s government is a socialist government that inherited a budget crisis from decades of corruption and tax evasion by today’s loudest protesters: the medical doctors and the right wing party that calls itself “New Democracy”. Bribe-taking, collusion with pharmaceutical/medical manufacturers to overcharge the government and tax evasion run rampant and have been documented the last few months in the inernational press. Yet, if somebody appropriates a jesture associated with a justified protest (the Iraqi shoe thrower), you immediately assume that the usurper is also just!

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By Alfred di Genis, September 12, 2010 at 2:12 am Link to this comment
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That this silly non-event, Papandreou was blocks away when this right wing extremist “threw” his shoe, is a headline reduces Truthdig to a desperate corporate media wannabe. Pity.

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