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Loukanikos (Greek: Λουκάνικος: "the sausage loukaniko"), initially named "Theodor", was a Greek riot dog that participated in almost every anti-austerity protest in Greece. He was commonly known for joining protests, barking at police, helping in street battles with the Greek police as well as participating in anarchist rallies and ...
A riot dog is a stray dog that accompanies street protesters. The term originated during the 2008 Greek riots when a number of stray dogs remained among the protesters even when violent rioting broke out. [1] [2] [3] A few riot dogs have acquired a large following of fans around the world such as the Greek Loukanikos [4] [5] [6] and Negro ...
Greek police kicked open a gate to a free a dog that was threatened by approaching wildfire. The dog was trapped in a garden in Mandra, a town on the outskirts of Athens, but police managed to ...
The 2021 Greek protests broke out in response to a proposed government bill that would allow police presence on university campuses for the first time in decades, [2] for which opposition groups accused the government of taking advantage of the COVID-19 lockdown to impose increasingly authoritarian measures. [6]
Three shepherd dogs escaped from their yard and fatally mauled a 50-year-old Greek woman in her garden Sunday, police said. The attack took place at around 2 p.m. in the village of Neochorouda ...
Over the weekend, the death of a police dog in the US made the news, too. On September 28, an off-duty police officer in Texas accidentally shot a police dog while trying to shoot his neighbor’s ...
They were the first special police units founded in Greece. They were created to lift the burden from other bodies of police and armed forces from involvement in riots, illegal gatherings and demonstrations. The MAT are known as "matatzides" (Greek: ματατζήδες) or "matades" (Greek: ματάδες).
The 2010 Greek truck drivers' strike was carried out in Greece by the truck driving industry to protest against the austerity measures set out by the Greek government. It began on July 26, 2010, with over thirty-three thousand Greek truck drivers going on strike, and ended on August 1, 2010.