Robin hoods hit Greek supermarket

Modern day Robin Hoods have robbed a supermarket belonging to the Masoutis chain, one the Greece's biggest,  in the northern city of Thessaloniki and redistributed their loot to shoppers in a nearby street market. A group calling itself the Initiative Against Rising Prices claimed responsibility and said that the act was a protest against a" consumerist mechanism which paces profits ahead of survival".

This is not the first time that Greek supermarkets have been targeted for such protests. Earlier this year supermarkets in Athens also suffered the same treatment by anarchist groups protesting against price hikes in the cost of basic goods.

Rising costs have long been eating into the income of the average Greek consumer and the inability of the government to break the power of cartels which control much the country's retail trade means that people often pay two or three times the price for everyday goods such as coffee, breakfast cereals and clothing that other Europeans do.

According to eye witnessed quoted in an Indymedia report passers-by responded postively to the latest robbery. The police made no arrests.

All images from Indymedia.