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Thousands Protest Forest Fire Response in Greece

HeadlineAug 30, 2007

In Greece, thousands of people gathered outside Parliament Wednesday to protest the government response to a massive forest fire. Sixty-three people have been killed in the blaze so far.

Clianthis Triandafyllidis: “We couldn’t just sit still and let everything happen without doing anything, without any — without doing anything. We just had to do something to show that we disapprove of this. We couldn’t live our life as we used to up to now, because things have changed. This is a big catastrophe that has happened.”

It’s widely believed many fires in Greece are started by arsonists working on behalf of land developers.

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