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Asura revived in Piraeus: Graphic images from the bloody Shiite custom

A violent and provocative custom

Muslims celebrate Ashura in Greece with self-lacerations in a bloody ritual (caution: bloody photos)

It has been celebrated in Greece since 1978 in Piraeus