Political protests of all ideological stripes have wielded the makeshift weapon in Greece.
The country has a tumultuous history of political violence, much of which came to a head in a 1967 coup that resulted in seven years of military rule. After many years of relative calm, the financial crisis reignited Greek people’s penchant for mass protest and the global underdogs’ favorite incendiary device.
The petrol bomb is common across the world. Social media videos of Ukrainians making molotov cocktails were abundant at the start of the war. The bottled explosive is also profiled in Che Guevara’s famous military handbook “And in 2020, during unrest in New York following the killing of George Floyd, protesters made headlines and were ultimatelyGreek police detained at least 10 people on Nov. 9, 2022, during a protest outside parliament against soaring inflation.
On Nov. 17, 2018, thousands took to the streets in central Athens to mark the anniversary of a student uprising in 1973 that helped topple the military junta. published last year that found that in Greece the far left is more prone to political violence than the far right. However, while leftist violence was more frequent and unpredictable, far-right violence remains more dangerous.
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