Greece on Vice

Austerity's Drug of Choice

Sisa Is Destroying the Lives of Athens’s Homeless People

Greece's infamous new drug, sisa, is basically meth and filler ingredients like battery acid, engine oil, shampoo, and cooking salt. The majority of its users are poor, often homeless, city dwellers reeling from the psychological and physical impacts of a country in the grip of economic collapse. Full story

Is Golden Dawn Turning to Terrorism to Get Their Message Across?

Greece has had its fair share of far-right nationalists over the past few decades. Operating under slightly more marketable monikers like "patriots" or "anticommunists," they've committed some thuggish crimes—like smashing left-wing figurehead Grigoris Lambrakis to death with a c… Full story

A Gang of Greek Activists Torched the Skouries Gold Mine

Last Sunday 50 masked men armed with Molotov cocktails stormed a gold mine in northern Greece. After torching bulldozers and trucks belonging to Canadian mining company El Dorado and its Greek subsidiary Hellenic Gold, the group used tree trunks to block police and firefighters f… Full story

Greece's New Anarchist Generation Is Being Tortured by Police

A group of eight people armed with AK-47s attempted to rob a bank and a post office in the Greek town of Velventos. Although bank-robbing anarchists armed with AK-47s might not seem like individuals deserving of pity, the police tortured them so badly that NGOs like Amnesty Inter… Full story

Immigrants Are Being Stabbed to Death on the Streets of Athens

On Saturday Javed Aslam, the Pakistani president of the Union of Immigrant Workers in Greece, addressed a crowd of about 5,000 people who had marched all the way to Syntagma Square, in front of the parliament building, to protest against fascism and the growing wave of racist att… Full story

World Peace Update

What with India and Pakistan risking a nuclear war by trading bullets all last week, it became obvious that the world would have no problem falling back into its comfort zone of terrorizing itself in the new year. Full story

Why I Love Hairy Men

There are two things you can expect when you go to bed with a Greek guy. First, his mother is going to hate you. Second, when he’s naked, he’s still going to be wearing a wiry suit of hair. Full story

Zacharias Dimitriadis Makes Greece Look Fun Again

His photos make you forget about all the hatred and fighting, which is nice. Full story

The Greek Police Got to Use Their Shiny New Water Cannon

Yet again, the familiar sight of Greeks fighting Greeks hit the news on Wednesday as protesters clashed with riot police in Athens. One hundred thousand protesters crammed into Syntagma Square on the second day of a 48-hour strike, coinciding with a government vote on the next ro… Full story

The Apocalypse Has Come Early to Athens, Greece

Photographer Dimitrs Kleanthris wanted to show just how bad its gotten in Greece, so he climbed to the top of the lofty hotels and high-rise apartments of Athens and snapped photos of people milling about in quiet desperation on the streets below. Full story