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[paliometoxo]

LoL halloumi with some shoushoukkos?;p

[denizaksulu]

LoL halloumi with some shoushoukkos?;p

No. Perhaps Milti will bring me some though. I prefer the soutzuko from villages rather than factory made.

[halil]

Thanks Halil.

Do you know Loukas? He works for RIK(cameraman). He is sitting next to me? He arrived yesterday morning from the hot-spot that is Larnaca.

No Deniz,

I am not happy by putting these kind of things Deniz but we must also inform the public how few fanatics can harm the trust between 2 sides...

today again it was on headlines....hopefully next time ''ROC'' will be more active and take all necessary precaution against these kinds.


Seven charged and released after Friday’s violent fracas

SEVEN PEOPLE arrested late on Friday night following violent conflicts between nationalist marchers and participants at the antiracism Rainbow Festival in Larnaca were yesterday charged and released.

According to the police, the charges included causing pubic disturbance and attacking policemen.

Apart from a 30-year-old Turkish Cypriot singer who was stabbed in the chest during the violence on Fridat night, the conflicts led to one policewoman being hit on the head with a paint tin and needing five stitches.

A further 13 people were reported injured, with two being in serious condition.

Police Spokesman Michalis Katsounotos yesterday said the police condemned the violent phenomena “plainly and without reservation” whoever was to blame.

Responding to criticism from both sides that the police did little to avert the troubles and that it shouldn’t have allowed the two events to run together, Katsounotos said the force’s job was to intervene when members of the public misbehave, which was exactly what it did on Friday night.

“The police has no right, or authority, to ban any event from going ahead, nor are these events licensed by the police,” he pointed out.

The police, he added, managed to avert an even worse situation on Friday night with its strong presence.

“The police did what was humanly possible to avert the worse,” said Katsounotos. “And some of those who criticise us should look at the problem from its roots and not try to apportion the blame to the police.”

The troubles started brewing last week when migrant support group KISA announced it would be moving the Rainbow Festival from Limassol – as was the initial plan – to Larnaca. The NGO specifically chose Friday night, during which a planned march was expected to pass through Phinikoudes Beach – where the festival was held – organised by three nationalist groups, calling for an end to illegal immigrants and the policies used by the state to support migrants.

KISA blatantly stated in its announcement that it would be transferring the festival as a kind of “anti-demonstration” to the nationalists’ demonstration.

According to the police, the Rainbow Festival had started at 5pm in Phinikoudes as planned and was ongoing when at around 7pm, members of three nationalist groups – headed by the Greek Resistance - proceeded to pass through the area in a march that had been announced over a month ago.

There were around 600 people from both events, the police said.

At 7.20 pm, the police said members of KISA and other festival goers attempted to prevent the march from going ahead, resulting in the two sides coming into violent conflict.

“During the incidents, 12 people were injured in total, of which three were policemen,” said the police.

It was after 9.30 pm when singer 30-year-old Sertunc Akdogdu was ambushed by around 20 to 30 people and stabbed.

“The injured man was taken to Larnaca General Hospital, where he underwent surgery after it was found that he had been injured on the left lung,” said the police. His doctors said Akdogdu’s condition was serious but he was out of danger.

Around two hours later, a 25-year-old man from Bangladesh was found heavily bleeding in a Phinikoudes side street and was taken to hospital, where he was treated for a head injury and kept in as a precaution.

But the troubles didn’t end there; a mosque in Central Larnaca was vandalised, while damages were caused to shops and homes in the area.

Labour Minister Sotiroula Charalambous yesterday said society should beware of the messages it was trying to send out.

Legal migrants, she added, are in Cyprus through specific procedures, while the government follows EU and international guidelines on how it deals with political asylum seekers.

“The government has a complete migratory policy and complete policy to deal with the problems that are created by illegal immigration,” said Charalambous. “But under no circumstances can we allow for society to receive messages of the type that migrants are against the Cypriots and that any problems in Cyprus society are down to the problem of migration. These phenomena and these ideas cannot be accepted.”

The minister conceded that Cyprus’ economy was facing problems, such as unemployment; but these will not be resolved by violating the free movement of workers within the EU, which is one of the Union’s basic principles.

“Every worker from the other 26 EU member states can come and work in Cyprus, like any Cypriot can go and work in any other EU states,” said Charalambous, while adding that the number of work permits for third country nationals had been reduced.

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/seven ... s/20101107

[Viewpoint]

What were we saying about GCs being the most racist in the EU, more proof.

[paliometoxo]

What were we saying about GCs being the most racist in the EU, more proof.

what took you so long? there are pages of this news in general chat

[Viewpoint]

What were we saying about GCs being the most racist in the EU, more proof.

what took you so long? there are pages of this news in general chat

Thank you for proving me right.

[paliometoxo]

proving you right about what? all i did was point out i knew you would love this news and wondered why you took so long to reply to it

[Viewpoint]

proving you right about what? all i did was point out i knew you would love this news and wondered why you took so long to reply to it

That GCs are racists and they try to cover up by making lame excuses.

[paliometoxo]

i never tried to cover anything up at all... and i am not racist thank you..

[ZoC]

proving you right about what? all i did was point out i knew you would love this news and wondered why you took so long to reply to it

That GCs are racists

what all of them? are all tcs pig ignorant? or just you, shah and halil?