[HCDX] Opposition parties slam government over ERT raid

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Opposition parties slam government over ERT raid

  
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_07/11/2013_526680


Greek opposition parties on Thursday slammed a government decision to 
remove the remaining ex-ERT employees from the state broadcaster's 
headquarters.

SYRIZA MP Zoe Konstantopoulou was among a group of leftist deputies who 
attempted to enter the premises in the northern Athens suburb of Aghia 
Paraskevi early on Thursday, a few hours after police stormed into the 
building.

?The government... has carried out a coup against itself and against 
legality,? Konstantopoulou told journalists after police stopped them 
from entering the site.

The police used a pair of handcuffs to lock the main entrance to the 
site. Images of the handcuffs went viral on Greek social media, before 
police replaced them with a lock.

Fellow SYRIZA MP Dimitris Stratoulis described the night-time operation 
as an ?illegal, coup-like act.?

The decision also drew criticism from the right wing populist Independent 
Greeks party as well as the Greek Communist Party (KKE).

Independent Greeks leader Pannos Kammenos tweeted that ?occupation forces 
have swept the ERT building.?

?After the ERT shutdown and the mass layoffs, we have once more seen the 
face of state violence and terror,? said Communist Party deputy Diamanto 
Manolakou.

Greek riot police stormed into ERT headquarters in the early hours of 
Thursday and evicted dozens of protesters occupying it since June when 
the government shut abruptly the state broadcaster.

Scuffles broke out between some of the protesters and riot police, who 
had cordoned off the area and blocked the entrance to the building. 
Police fired small rounds of teargas to disperse some of the protesters 
and briefly detained two former workers and two unionists for resisting 
authorities, the officials said.

Crowds of supporters started rallying outside the main ERT building. A 
public rally has been called for 4 p.m. on Thursday.

Coalition partners PASOK defended the move.

?The restoration of legality, the free and full operation of public radio 
and television is necessary... to protect the public interest,? the 
socialists said in a statement.

?No one should be allowed to stop the modernization of public radio and 
television in the name of populism and opportunism,? it said.

Democratic Left, which left the coalition after disagreements in the 
government handling of the ERT case, attacked the administration's 
intransigence.

?The past few months have highlighted the impasse of the government's 
policies. This was to be 

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