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ATHENS - "Bill Clinton, the President of the USA, has been found guilty of war crimes in Yugoslavia and an ecological catastrophe in the Balkan region of unforeseeable consequences," said a sentence passed at a people's "trial" held in the central Athens square Sintagma late Monday.
The public trial of the U.S. was staged in the square in the organization of the Greek Commission for International Relaxation and Peace, a score of non-governmental organizations and political parties and over a hundred Greek actors, cultural and other public figures.
The text of the sentence was written by leading Athens lawyers and judges, and the jury was made up of the several thousand Athens residents at the square, whose name Sintagma, meaning constitution, was symbolic.
After the "people's trial" was over, the bulk of the participants marched to the U.S. embassy despite rain, carrying banners with anti-American slogans and protesting against the U.S. policy in the Balkans and the scheduled visit to Greece of President Clinton.