Far-right anti-maskers staged protests against the lockdown restrictions in Athens, Thessaloniki and Patras on Sunday. Despite the biting cold, they gathered holding Greek flags, shouting slogans against the “coronavirus-junta” and singing the national anthem.
In some cases, police used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
In Thessaloniki, protesters gathered at the White Tower with Greek flags and flags with the Vergina Sun, used in protests against the prespes Agreement with North Macedonia.
They shouted slogans like “Burn the Parliament” and “Down with the corona-junta.”
The anti-maskers had reportedly followed a call on social media that was running under the motto “We want our lives back.”
Many protesters did not wear the mandatory masks.
According to local media, strong police forces were there but did not intervene. However, at some point protesters wearing hoods threw flares at police officers who responded with sound flares. the group threw also other items at police and turned over garbage bins.
At a gathering with the same cause in Patras, protesters sang the National Anthem.
In Athens where some 700 people gathered at Syntagma Square, police fired tear gas when they attempted to cross the street and near the Parliament.
The video shows protesters holding a banner “Mask is muzzle” and trying to explain to police that the measures against the pandemic bring nothing – as they said they read on internet.
sources: candiadoc.gr, ethnos.gr, thestival.gr & others
Idiocy. If these miscreants had worn masks since last March, we wouldn’t be in the current situation.
Selfish bastards, one and all. They’ll end up prolonging the lockdown for years.
How were they identified as “far right”?
flags, symbols etc as mentioned in the post
Simple. Anything/anyone that doesn’t agree with the coronavirus narrative.
Could you please stop with “anti masks nazis”?
I hava asthma, if I wear mask for too long, I go into violent caugh. I almost died a few times from suffocation.
And nobody is wearing mask properly. WHO has a long list: Hand desinfection, expiration after 20 minutes, dealing with contaminated mask…
yes,they are standing up ,for there freedom,!!!
Freedom?? What kind of freedom will you get with the virus? The freedom to die a painful death??
…their freedom to go out and infect other people and kill them? Freedom always comes with responsibility.
How about those who are scared stay home and wear 200 masks at once and the rest of us live life
It is possible to be against lockdown restrictions without being crazy or right-wing.
These restrictions are destroying out economy for a virus that has a fatality rate of 00.25-00.50%
He who has lost his job has lost a large part of his freedom.