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Visa pour l'image 2012 : Maro Kouri
Feb. 13, 2012-Athens, Greece: After the strict austerity measures and crisis, a new social class arises in Athenian streets: the new homeless. They have an average age at 47 years, 11% of Greek homeless has a university degree, 23.5% a high school diploma, while only 9.3% are illiterate. They are usually victims of the unemployment that has sent about 20,000 people on the 'bench' © Maro Kouri
December 27, 2011- Athens, Greece: Spyros Karabetian, 72 years old, lives in the streets for the last 5 years. His hands and legs suffer from gangrene. After the austerity measures and the crisis, a new social class arises in Athenian streets, the new homeless. They have an average age at 47 years, 11% of Greek homeless has a university degree, 23.5% a high school diploma, while only 9.3% are illiterate. They are usually victims of the unemployment that has sent about 20,000 people on the 'bench' © Maro Kouri / Polaris
Athens: Antonis sniffs heroin for the last 28 years. He has lived in Belgium and Chicago. Once, he got married but couldn’t produce a child. He returned to drugs. The last four years he lives under the abandoned and rusty automatic stairs of Klafthmonos central square © Maro Kouri
October 20, 2011 - Athens, Greece: Except the police violence, homeless people and people on hunger strike are some of the results of the austerity measures and the high increase of the unemployment. Homeless beggar in crippled outfit. © Maro Kouri / Polaris
Athens, Klafthmonos sq. shanty neighbourhood: 50 year old Anna takes her dose by begging for a coin. She needs 30 euros per day. She was sleeping in a shelter next to other heroin addicted junkees. Untill one morning of July, the municipality cleaners asked her jently to leave. Then, they "cleaned" the little shanty town. Anna is used in moving squares. She‘ll move somewhere else. © Maro Kouri
Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece won a crucial vote of confidence early Wednesday when 155 lawmakers of the Socialist Party (PA.SO.K) supported it. The parliament was beleaguered by thousands of protesters who were shouting insulting words against the 300 members of the Parliament///Protester holds a gallows (for the members of the Parliament who voted "yes" to the next loan that Greece will take from the IMF in order to pay the interests of the previous loans) © Maro Kouri
Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece won a crucial vote of confidence early Wednesday when 155 lawmakers of the Socialist Party (PA.SO.K) supported it. The parliament was beleaguered by thousands of protesters who were shouting insulting words against the 300 members of the Parliament ///Protesters with Greek flag in front of the Parlaiment © Maro Kouri
48 hours general strike and demonstations against the Memorandum. Thousands of demonstrators join the Indignant Citizens /// Woman from the music Group of the Indignant Citizens dances in order to calm the crowd © Maro Kouri
48 hours general strike and demonstations against the Memorandum. Thousands of demonstrators join the Indignant Citizens © Maro Kouri
The famous "unknown" men and few women, with masks or having simple covered faces, they throw marblestones that they find after breaking the streets of the city-center, in order to throw them against the riot policemen (MAT) together with molotov bombs and other metal objects that they grab from the traffic lights, the kiosks, the traffic signs of from the -closed- cafes and other shops around Sydagma square where the Greek Parliament House is. Police shoot with teargas. © Maro Kouri
Riots during a rally against plans for new austerity measures /// Protesters clash with riot police in front of the Greek parliament © Maro Kouri
Feb. 10, 2012- Athens, Greece : Riot-policemen run in front of a graffity that says " Cops, your children will eat you". Thousands took to the streets as labour unions launched a 48h strike against austerity measures that demanded by the 17-nation eurozone. © Maro Kouri / Anatomica Press
Riots during a rally against plans for new austerity measures /// Protesters clash with riot police while they throw teargas © Maro Kouri
Riots during a rally against plans for new austerity measures /// Protesters clash with riot police while they throw teargas © Maro Kouri
Second day of the general strike all over Greece and demonstrations against the memorandum vote that brings hardest austerity measures to all private and public workers. Extremely riots happened between - members of the communist P.A.M.E and the known as 'rioters men with covered faces'. The vote came after violent demonstrations that left one person dead and 74 injured///Injured man with blood on his face © Maro Kouri
Feb. 12, 2012-Athens, Greece: 100,000 citizens gathered in central Athens to protest against the voting of the new bailout law from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Clashed begun when hooded youths threw bottles, rocks, pieces of marble and firebombs at police who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. © Maro Kouri
48 hours general strike and demonstations against the Memorandum. Thousands of demonstrators join the Indignant Citizens. A kosk owner if Sydagma (Parliament) square wears oxygen mask to avoid the toxic gas that policemen shoots against demontsators. © Maro Kouri
The famous "unknown" men and few women, with masks or having simple covered faces, they throw marblestones that they find after breaking the streets of the city-center, in order to throw them against the riot policemen (MAT) together with molotov bombs and other metal objects that they grab from the traffic lights, the kiosks, the traffic signs of from the -closed- cafes and other shops around Sydagma square where the Greek Parliament House is. Police shoot with teargas /// A molotov bomb explores among the riot policemen © Maro Kouri
More than 500,000 people demonstrate and strike in Greece against the next memorandum vote that bring hardest austerity measures to all public and private workers © Maro Kouri
Youngs throw stones to the riot policemen who had firef teargas over the thousands of striking state sector workers who had marched against cuts the government says are needed to save the nation from bankruptcy /// Youngs throw stones and woods to the riot policemen in front of the greek Constitution © Maro Kouri
Youngs throw stones to the riot policemen who had firef teargas over the thousands of striking state sector workers who had marched against cuts the government says are needed to save the nation from bankruptcy /// Youngs throw stones and woods to the riot policemen in front of the greek Constitution © Maro Kouri
150,000 protesters to the march of general strike for austernity measures. Man with greek flag and angry eyes © Maro Kouri
150,000 protesters to the march of general strike for austernity measures. Man with greek flag and angry eyes © Maro Kouri
Feb. 12, 2012-Athens, Greece: Greek flag with red colour hung from the Unknown Soldier' s Monument of Parliament Building. 100,000 citizens gathered in central Athens to protest against the voting of the new bailout law from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Clashes begun when hooded youths threw bottles, rocks, pieces of marble and firebombs at police who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. © Maro Kouri
Feb. 13, 2012-Athens, Greece: After the strict austerity measures and crisis, a new social class arises in Athenian streets: the new homeless. They have an average age at 47 years, 11% of Greek homeless has a university degree, 23.5% a high school diploma, while only 9.3% are illiterate. They are usually victims of the unemployment that has sent about 20,000 people on the 'bench' © Maro Kouri
Athens, Greece: The Sparagmos (1)
Greece is in the midst of a violent economical crisis.
For the last two years, nationwide general labor strikes in Greece called by the country's largest labor federations, representing the private and public sector respectively. The violence erupted between thousands of angry workers , students and the police, in front of the Greek parliament, in Athens. In the same Parliament Square also named ‘Syntagma’ the Greek ‘Indignant Citizens’ movement was born in June 2011. They object to the government's far-reaching budget cuts. Riot police fired tear gas on the demonstrators who threw molotov cocktail bomb and marble stones.
In Greece, the percentage of the population at risk of poverty is 20% with EU funding, rising to 23% without it. 33% of poor people in Greece are over 65, as pensioners are one of the social groups (along with single-parent families, the unemployed, immigrants and young people), which suffer most from low income and high cost of living. Another movement named "I do not pay ", fights against the high prices and the extra taxes that Greek government puts on basic commodities, electricity, public traffic and tolls in order to earn support and loan from the IMF. Every day there are Extremely violent clashes in the centre of Athens, meanwhile parliament approves the austerity measures for Greece to receive its next installment of billion euros by the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank
(1)Sparagmos : lit. "Tearing, rending."
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