New Age of Rebellion & Riot stalk Europe

[katty]

more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5563020.ece

Iceland has no army, no navy and no air force - but it does have riot police.

On Tuesday night the black-uniformed troopers came out to quell the latest riots in Reykjavik, which erupted in front of parliament. The building was splattered with paint and yoghurt, the crowd yelled and banged pans, shot fireworks and flares at the windows and lit a fire in front of the main door.

Yesterday the protesters gathered again, hurling eggs at the car of Geir Haarde, the Prime Minister, and banging cans on its roof.

The transformation of the placid island into a community of seething anger - there have been half a dozen riots in recent weeks - is more than a regional oddity.

In Riga last week 10,000 protesters laid siege to the Latvian parliament; yesterday hundreds of Bulgarians rallied to demand that the Socialist-led Government

[bemildred]

1. Having your savings and livelihood taken away will do that to you. nt

[katty]

2. yes, and more of this to come everywhere

[Joe the Liberal]

3. Why we're they rioting? n/t