As Riots Rage, Greece’s Presidential Guard Doesn’t Budge
►https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/world/europe/as-riots-rage-greeces-presidential-guard-doesnt-budge.html?_r=1
In the past year, protesters have battled with riot police officers over and over, often within yards of the guards, who can move only once every 30 minutes — and then only to take a few rigid, slow ceremonial steps. Even the guards at Buckingham Palace get to move more, breaking every 10 minutes.
Sometimes, the soldiers here manage to continue their routines during the clashes, lifting their red clogs with pompoms high into the air on the half-hour and offering an odd scene of normalcy just behind the line of masked and padded riot police officers dressed in black and wielding batons.