ELAM members attack lottery seller / cyprus mail

ELAM members attack lottery seller
By George Psyllides and Poly Pantelides Published on March 20, 2011 +-Text size

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AN elderly lottery ticket seller was yesterday beaten up by members of a nationalist group in the centre of Nicosia in broad daylight after he told them he disagreed with their beliefs.

Eye witnesses said Michalis Tsiakkas was beaten by two youths belonging to the anti-immigrant group, National Popular Front (ELAM), dozens of whom were handing out flyers in busy Ledra Street at lunchtime.

It all started as a shouting match on a side road off the popular shopping thoroughfare with several ELAM members, clad in their black t-shirts, surrounding him.

The argument seemed to have come to an end, with the ELAM members walking away and Tsiakkas getting on his moped to leave.

But seconds later, and while Tsiakkas was half-way through another side road next to the Debenhams department store, he was attacked by two youths wearing the trademark black ELAM t-shirts who threw him off his moped, hit him in the face and then fled the scene.

“The ELAM fascists attacked him,” an eyewitness told the Cyprus Mail.

Tsiakkas’ moped lay on the ground, plastic pieces strewn on the pavement.

Tsiakkas, face bleeding from the blows, walked away, down Ledra Street, seemingly searching for his attackers.

“Am I supposed to die because I think differently to them?” a distraught Tsakkas asked the Sunday Mail moments after the attack. “And people around me just watched. I can’t allow this (behaviour) for as long as I am alive.”

The trouble started when ELAM members handing out printed flyers outlining their views, asked Tsiakkas what he thought of immigrants in Cyprus.

“Don’t I have the right to defend my fellow human beings?” he said. “People are working here, don’t they have any rights?”

Tsiakkas told the nationalists that on their logic, Cypriots in the UK, Canada, USA and elsewhere in the world should also leave those countries.

“For working people, every land is a homeland. There exists something that's not good: fascism. This is what you should be attacking,” Tsiakkas said.

Police arrived on the scene shortly after the incident but by that time there was no sign of any member of ELAM on Ledra Street.

telika itan 6 oksa 2 jeinoi pou ton ederan. Giati to dimosieuma den grafei gia ton Nigiriano?
Alites roufianoi Dimosiografoi

πε μας εσυ αν ξερεις

redrebel wrote:

πε μας εσυ αν ξερεις

Στην ανακοίνωση μας γράφει έξι και ο δημοσιογράφος γράφει 2...
Το ότι δεν λαλει ο δημοσιογράφος την επίθεση με τον Νιγηριανό σημαίνει ότι ψεύδεται ο δημοσιογράφος...

εν εφημεριδα υποτιθεται θελει διασταυρωμενες πληροφοριες, εν καλα που εστω αναφεραν το γεγονος, και μπορει ναν 2 που τον εδεραν, 6 να εμοιραζαν φυλλαδια, για τον νηγιριανο εν ακουσα κατι αλλο

kat arxas re mitsako gia ton nigiriano mono emeis enimerwthikame kai oson afora to lathos tou dimosiografou (an einai lathos/ eskemmeno en nomizw na einai den iparxei logos) exei tosi simasia gia sena an itan 2 i 6? einai logos na ton apokalesoume roufiano? ta sinthimata iparxoun na ta xrisimopoioume ekei pou prepei.. an i anakoinwsi tis enwsis kai twn allwn omadwn kanoun telika lathos kai itan 2 kai oxi 6 ti tha peis? pseftes roufianoi anarxikoi?

punkunin wrote:

kat arxas re mitsako gia ton nigiriano mono emeis enimerwthikame kai oson afora to lathos tou dimosiografou (an einai lathos/ eskemmeno en nomizw na einai den iparxei logos) exei tosi simasia gia sena an itan 2 i 6? einai logos na ton apokalesoume roufiano? ta sinthimata iparxoun na ta xrisimopoioume ekei pou prepei.. an i anakoinwsi tis enwsis kai twn allwn omadwn kanoun telika lathos kai itan 2 kai oxi 6 ti tha peis? pseftes roufianoi anarxikoi?

Gia na pw tin alitheia den eskeftika oti exei pithanotita na exoume emeis lathos. Gia na to grafoume simainei oti en swsto, swsta?
Giafto eipa oti o dimosiografos pithanon na apokryptei stoixeia

ma giati na apokripsei 4s akoma fasistes? den nomizw na iparxei eskemmeni prospathia apokripsis. ti 2 ti 6 to gegonos en to idio. kai to arthro se genikes grammes ennen idiaitera ashimo..
anw, ok. katalavainw ti les, alla enoxlithika me to sinthima pou katw.. les kai gireyoume aformes na ta xwsoume se olous.. ki omws exei dimosiografous pou prospathoun na anadi3oun kapoia zitimata me tin elaxisti eleytheria pou tous dinoun, omws einai afanis, as min tous thavoume ki emeis...

a! kai nai emeis den kaname lathos.

7 itan oi fasistes telika.