“It is not wise to draw linear parallels between events. June 2020 in the United States in not what December 2008 was in Athens. Black Lives Matter protesters are not the gilets jaunes of the United States. Those are different countries, different societies and political systems, police forces that operate under different frameworks. There is however one common factor, the polarization of Western societies,” writes Triandafyllos Karatrantos in his article for newspaper “TA NEA”.

 

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