Public stand on the events

It is difficult to assess what the people who do not participate in the events believe for the realities of the last days.
There are countless reports of people living in areas where there are clashes with the police, who from their balconies shouted against the cops, or in the streets cheered for the protesters. In one occasion it was written that residents around Exarhia square, where the 15 year old was murdered in cold blood on Saturday 6/12, were throwing objects and water from their houses against the riot police that was chasing protesters in the small streets of the area. Another common image reported these days is residents demanding from the riot police forces to leave their area because they believe that their presence is responsible for most of the clashes.
On the other hand, in the extensive protests that happened on Monday in Athens, there were countless attacks against banks, public buildings and multinational companies. But alongside these aimed attacks, there were reported many attacks to smaller stores and extensive looting and stealing of the holdings of these stores.
The government and the media right away started using the chaotic scenes of blind destruction against private property as a propaganda against the thousands of people in the streets. The government has managed to avoid mentioning even once that the police violence and the history of policemen set free (and still being policemen today) after murdering innocent citizens and immigrants is mainly responsible for the riots. A while ago the prime minister Kostas Karamanlis repeated again this thesis. He spoke for blind violence of extremists. From what I republished from yesterday and today, I suppose that it is obvious that these "blinded extremists" are schoolchildren, teachers, university students, workers, unemployed and others who either demonstrate peacefully until the riot police attack them with tear gases, or when they retreat to violence this violence is attacks with stones and fruits against police stations and riot police. The 90% of the fires the last three days are garbage bins set alight to "burn" the tear gases and help the people breathe. Of course there are few petrol bombs being thrown against the riot police (who cannot be burnt by the way) and sometimes there are accidental burnings of cars that are next or in front the riot police. But also there are testimonies for riot police smashing car windows or store windows either by throwing their "bombs of sound/light" (there are many injured protesters from direct shooting of these bombs towards the crowds) or intentionally to use the damages as propaganda against the protesters.
Apart from this propaganda that all clashes are produced by extremists it is reported in many greek cities, that the police or other people say to the merchants of the city and other residents that buses full of monstrous anarchists are going to their city to smash all their stores and they ask them either to stay in their houses or to go to protect their properties. In one city they have been told that groups of anarchists are coming from Italy! In some occasions this propaganda worked; angry residents attacked with the police peaceful demonstrators because the latter intended to smash their properties. But in other occasions it was reported that after the residents realised that nobody came to destroy their city and the local demonstrators either didn't do anything but protesting peacefully or they just attacked the local police station or the riot police without any damage of private properties, the residents became suspicious of the police.
Another occasion of criminal activity of the police these days was to let members of fascist organisations to act freely around some cities. Sometimes neonazi were seen attacking alongside riot policemen against demonstrators. Especially in Athens and the city of Patras, there were serious injuries from neonazi. In Athens there were reported two knife attacks, luckily the victims survived. The links of Greek police with fascist and neonazi organisations have been published many times in the past by specific journalists. Few months ago, in a neonazi rally in Athens, where antifascists assembled to protest against them, the riot police attacked the latter alongside with knife holding neonazi, in front of TV cameras. Nobody was punished from the police once more.
As I said the governmental propaganda is shared by the media as well. Greek tv follows an old tradition of showing on screen only the scenes of violence from a demonstration. There are 50 thousand people protesting for example for three hours in the centre of Athens; if a group of 50-100 persons start throwing petrol bombs, the program stops and there is direct image from the demonstration, analyses on violence, why the police doesn't arrest them and stuff like that. If nothing happens, if there is any report, it is for less than a minute. The viewers, the people who these days haven't been anywhere close the places where there are demonstrations have no idea of what is really happening, apart from images of burnt cars and buildings. Police violence is being projected as an answer to all these extremists. So the the Greek TV participates in this plan of the government to scare the citizens to stay in their homes and to believe that some psychopaths are destroying their country.
On the other hand though, these days amateur videos and photos, but also professional photographers and cameramen managed to capture live policemen aiming with guns or shooting on the air, people dressed as extremist rioters talking with the police, neonazi alongside plain cloth policemen and riot police holding clubs, neonazi holding knifes outside the polytechnic school etc. And especially the professional works (for example the one with the riot policeman aiming with a gun. A note: the photographer got fired because the photo found its way internationally) managed to get published not only in Greece but outside of there as well. But even the amateur works made it to greek tv, which shows that when there are spectacular proofs, that can serve the role of commercial tv, these proofs make it to the mainstream media.
So did you manage to understand what the majority of people believe for all these events? Neither do I, ask them. Next post will be a translation from a big catalogue of victims of police cruelty the last decade after I inform todays news.