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Saturday 13 January 2018
Greece: Strikes, rallies, clashes at anti-austerity protests
By DEREK GATOPOULOS lead organizer of Friday’s Protesters try to avoid tear gas fired by police on the steps of parliament, during a rally against
Associated Press rally, promised to intensify a new austerity bill that will limit the right to strike and speed up property foreclosures, in Athens,
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Po- protests ahead of Mon- Friday, Jan. 12, 2018. More than 8,000 protesters joined a demonstration in central Athens on as
lice fired tear gas in brief day’s vote. strikes disrupted public transport in the capital.
clashes with protesters and “Let them vote for what-
strikes halted ferries and dis- ever they like. We won’t (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
rupted public transport Fri- stop,” he said.
day, as unions stepped up Amid a collapse in con- “This does not affect (um- planned Monday, includ- local time (1000-1300 GMT).
protests against a new aus- fidence, Greece lost the brella) unions and it does ing a three-hour work stop- Public transport and public
terity bill that will limit the ability of raising money in not change the process fol- page by air traffic control- hospital workers are also
right to strike and speed up international bond markets lowed to called strikes.” lers, set to halt flights be- planning strikes and stop-
property foreclosures. in 2010, but after years of More union protests are tween 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. pages. q
More than 8,000 protesters budget restraint there are
joined a demonstration in hopes that the country’s
central Athens as strikes dis- economy faces a brighter
rupted public transport in future.
the capital. The yield on the country’s
At the end of the rally, po- 10-year bond, for example,
lice briefly clashed with has dropped to below 4
protesters on the steps of percent — its lowest in more
parliament. than a decade, a clear
No arrests or injuries were sign that investors are more
reported. hopeful about Greece’s
The austerity bill, to be vot- economic prospects.
ed late Monday, is consid- Under the draft law, unions
ered to be potentially the will require a larger number
last major package of cuts of members present at a
before Greece heads to- strike vote for the protest to
ward the end of the bailout be considered legal.
program in August. But government spokes-
Giorgos Perros, a senior man Dimitris Tzanakopoulos
member of the Greek described the proposed
Communist Party and a change as minor.
Police hunt for thieves after botched Ritz robbery in Paris
By ANGELA CHARLTON clude the Justice Ministry, Jean-Michel Huguet of po- and quickly arrested, the cases during overnight
Associated Press high-end boutiques and lice union Alliance Police official said. cleanup efforts, the official
PARIS (AP) — Paris authori- the 19th-century Ritz. Nationale. The accomplices outside told The Associated Press.
ties recovered all the jew- Workers cleaned up shat- They seized watches from fled, one on a motorcycle The overall value of the
els stolen from the Ritz Ho- tered glass Thursday and display cases holding wares and another in a car. The jewels on display was esti-
tel in a dramatic heist, but started to repair damage from Rolex and Piaget, and motorcyclist dropped a mated at about 4.5 million
were still searching for two from the robbery. Other- then targeted the Alexan- bag with jewels and hatch- euros ($5.4 million).
thieves who got away, of- wise business appeared to dre Reza jewelry boutique ets when his motorcycle hit An official close to the in-
ficials said Thursday. be returning to normal at inside the hotel. a pedestrian during his es- vestigation said Thursday
Though ultimately unsuc- the Ritz, with no significant The suspects inside threw cape. The pedestrian was night that all the stolen jew-
cessful, the robbery on increase in security. bags of goods out of a slightly injured, said the offi- els have been recovered,
Wednesday evening raised Three perpetrators “en- window to at least two cial, who wasn’t authorized after authorities and jewel-
questions about security tered by the service en- accomplices outside, ac- to speak publicly about an ers carefully examined the
in one of the world’s most trance, smashed the jew- cording to a police official. ongoing investigation. contents of the bag and
prestigious neighborhoods, elry stands, grabbed jewels The three inside were then Other jewels were found debris and found every-
the Place Vendome. Its that were clearly expensive blocked when they tried to scattered amid the debris thing had been accounted
well-guarded buildings in- with the help of axes,” said flee through another door, of the shattered display for. q
