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Europe cracks in heat of Greece's flames

AN explosion of violence in Greece against austerity measures to save it from bankruptcy gave the country an almost revolutionary air last week, as if the people, with their rocks and political slogans, had risen up to overthrow corrupt and incompetent leaders.

The burnt-out shell of Marfin Egnatia bank in central Athens became a shrine to the dead - three employees, including a pregnant woman, killed when the building was set alight by protesters on Wednesday.

"The people who did this should be hung upside down in the square," said a middle-aged woman placing a bunch of flowers at the marble threshold. Click here for more.

 

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