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Sunday, January 20, 2013

GREECE: Anti-racism protesters rally in Athens after stabbing


Hundreds of demonstrators on Saturday paraded the coffin in central Athens of a Pakistani immigrant who was stabbed to death earlier this week, praying and opening the casket to show his face in protest at racist attacks in the country.
About 5,000 immigrants and human rights activists later gathered in the city's central Omonia square, police said, to demonstrate against racism, holding banners reading "Neo-Nazis out" and "Punishment for the fascist murderers of Shehzad Luqman".
The 27-year-old Pakistani was stabbed to death by two men on a motorcycle as he rode his bicycle to work in an Athens suburb in the early hours of Wednesday, in an attack police say may have been racially motivated.
"Perhaps his murder will bring hope that these attacks will stop. We are protesting for the government to take measures to stop racist attacks," Javied Aslam, head of the Pakistani Community organization, as about 300 Pakistani immigrants gathered outside city hall with the coffin.
Greece is a gateway for mostly Asian and African migrants trying to enter the European Union through its porous sea and land borders each year. They face rising hostility during the country's worst economic downturn in six decades.
"Greek people have fought against fascism," said Reza Golami, spokesman for the union of Afghans in Greece. "It is our duty to continue our struggle. Democracy was born in this country, it must not die here".
A police official told earlier this week a 25-year-old and a 29-year-old firefighter had admitted to stabbing Luqman in the chest following a drunken argument.

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