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Tension prevails in Himara after the assassination of Aristotelis Goumas, 37, member of the Greek minority in Albania. The incident happened Thursday night in the village Campi in Castro of Himara in South Albania.
The incident started when three Albanians asked Goumas to stop speaking Greek in his shop. The dispute led to beating of the Greek, who managed to escape and complain to his friends.
Later at night the three Albanians detected the Greek again on a land road and caused an accident in which Goumas lost his life.
The police has arrested six people. According to North Epirus News Agency nenanews.eu the suspects are aged 19-25 years old.
Greek MEGA TV reported that the Albanians told the police, that the Greek was blocking the road with his motorcycle and that they hit him and had their car crash on the motorcycle because he spoke to them in Greek.
Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman, Grigoris Delavekouras, condemned the death of Aristotelis Goumas saying that “Unacceptable criminal acts like that aim to arouse ethnic tension with unpredictable consequences and undermine the bilateral relations between Greece and Albania. It must be condemned by the entire Albanian society and its political representatives”

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2010/08/13/ ... oke-greek/

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http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showp ... ervice=142

Ethnic Greek's murder in Himare sparks protests, Athens reaction

The death of a 37-year-old ethnic Greek man in the coastal Albanian town of Himare on Thursday, who was reportedly run down for speaking Greek in his own shop, sparked a demonstration by local residents, who blocked a busy main highway for several hours on Friday morning in protest.

According to eyewitness reports from the township, Aristotelis Goumas was rammed by a car while riding his motorcycle and fatally injured. Three Albanian men from the central Albanian town of Vlore reportedly first confronted him in his shop, before assaulting him and finally crashing their car into his motorcycle.

Three suspects were charged in the incident, as Albanian authorities initially arrested six men, while local media on Friday referred to a traffic accident instead of a possible homicide. No police press release was issued.



In statements after the deadly incident, Himare Mayor Vassilis Bolanos emphasized that this is "a premeditated crime, as the perpetrators had been provoking the victim for days." Bolanos also referred to phenomena of ethnic intolerance, which he said harm Albanian society.

In Athens, foreign ministry spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras said the incident and information that the alleged perpetrators acted out of ethnic prejudice have unnerved the ethnic Greek minority in the neighbouring country.

"Such unacceptable and criminal acts aim to generate ethnic tension, with unforeseen consequences, and to undermine Greek-Albanian bilateral relations . The Albanian government must guarantee the proper and swift dispensation of justice, something that will comprise the only answer, in practice, to the reasonable concerns of the Greek national minority in Albania," the spokesman added.

Finally, Delavekouras said the Greek foreign ministry is closely and continuously monitoring all of the issues affecting the Greek minority in Albania, underlining that the respect and protection of ethnic Greeks' rights and security, beyond the self-evident obligation of the Albanian government, is also mandated by international law and the European acquis communautaire, "for which Albania desires integration".

The main opposition New Democracy (ND) party and the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) also sharply condemned the incident and called on Athens to take all necessary measures to ensure that a full investigation and subsequent judicial actions are taken.

[Cap]

Its like living in South Africa. Would it really surprise you?
Albania. FYROM, Kosovo. The shame of Europe.

[RichardB]

Its like living in South Africa. Would it really surprise you?
Albania. FYROM, Kosovo. The shame of Europe.

Does'nt surprise me at all Cap

I went by train London - Athens in the early 80s (not cheap but I wanted the experience) and was advised to avoid Albania (but going via Tirana was a lot quicker as opposed to going by what was then Yugoslavia ie round the top via Thessoloniki)

So I went the 'cheap' way and ended up getting stung for more than what it would cost me to take the recognised route due to 'customs'

A nightmare of a country with absolutely no regards for 'outsiders'

[Get Real!]

Man Murdered in Albania for Speaking Greek

I guess now you’re even…

“An Albanian immigrant was killed in Greece last September amid unrest triggered by the Greek side's defeat at the hands of its hosts in Tirana."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4397921.stm

[yialousa1971]

Man Murdered in Albania for Speaking Greek

I guess now you’re even…

“An Albanian immigrant was killed in Greece last September amid unrest triggered by the Greek side's defeat at the hands of its hosts in Tirana."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4397921.stm

Piss off shit face.

[yialousa1971]

[shahmaran]

Kind of goes along the same line as your signature...