{"id":13552,"date":"2010-11-09T14:30:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=13552"},"modified":"2010-11-09T14:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T12:30:38","slug":"you-are-not-welcome-to-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/09\/you-are-not-welcome-to-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"You are not welcome to Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Just a few days after I&#8217;ve posted &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/03\/welcome-to-cyprus\/\">Welcome to Cyprus<\/a>&#8220;, <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.cyprus-mail.com\/cyprus\/festival-violence-blame-game-starts\/20101109\">Cyprus News reports<\/a> about the clash between the anti-racism festival goers and nationalist groups.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">THE effects of last Friday&#8217;s fracas between nationalist groups and festival goers at the antiracist Rainbow Festival were still being felt across Cyprus.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">With one Turkish Cypriot singer stabbed and at least 12 others &#8211; foreigners and locals alike &#8211; injured, it was commonly agreed that even this violent outcome was nowhere as bad as it could have been.<\/div>\n<p>THE effects of last Friday&#8217;s fracas between nationalist groups and festival goers at the antiracist Rainbow Festival were still being felt across Cyprus.With one Turkish Cypriot singer stabbed and at least 12 others &#8211; foreigners and locals alike &#8211; injured, it was commonly agreed that even this violent outcome was nowhere as bad as it could have been.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video, perhaps, can illustrate what happened a bit better (if you just want the action, skip to 5:35).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BlXk4ogvrY4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve seen nationalist and xenophobic Cypriots before, this is the first time I see so many of them at the same place, so organized, and so dangerous. \u00a0Actually, while I was watching this video, I had a strong feeling of deja vu. \u00a0I&#8217;ve seen this somewhere before. \u00a0 Have you? \u00a0A crowd of young,\u00a0aggressive guys, well organized, with drums and loudspeakers, with sticks and other weapons, throwing chairs and what not, and having no respect for police at all &#8211; sounds familiar? There is only one other group of people that I know in Cyprus that fits the description &#8211; football hooligans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MrPjJmiShUc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Is there really a connection between football hooligans and nationalist groups? \u00a0I don&#8217;t know. \u00a0But they do look quite similar to the outsider. \u00a0And what else worries me is the police. \u00a0It seems that at the state the police is in right now, it can&#8217;t really stand against either football hooligans or violent fascist raids.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Just a few days after I&#8217;ve posted &#8220;Welcome to Cyprus&#8220;, Cyprus News reports about the clash between the anti-racism festival goers and nationalist groups. THE effects of last Friday&#8217;s fracas between nationalist groups and festival goers at the antiracist Rainbow Festival were still being felt across Cyprus. With one Turkish Cypriot singer stabbed and at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/09\/you-are-not-welcome-to-cyprus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You are not welcome to Cyprus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[2250,1259,330,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-13552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-crime","tag-immigration","tag-racism","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21450,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/08\/cypriot-leaders-are-truly-hardcore\/","url_meta":{"origin":13552,"position":0},"title":"Cypriot leaders are truly hardcore","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail reports: Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu has invited president Nicos Anastasiades to attend the Deep Purple concert in the north together, as part of the confidence building measures. 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