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A clash between protesters and police in Syntagma Square resulted in 33 people being detained, the Greek police has said. A small group of some 250 people calling themselves “National Constituent Assembly – Direct Democracy” gathered at Athens’ main square on Sunday despite a prohibition on gatherings for the day …

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Clashes between students and police broke out in Athens and Thessaloniki on Thursday, when students took to the streets to protest government plans to legislate in favor of private universities in Greece. The students chanted slogans “Degrees free of charge!” and “Free public education for all!” pictures via @lolosmarios The …

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High school pupils and university students clashed outside an EPAL vocational school in Stavroupolis suburb of Thessaloniki on Tuesday morning. At least, two people were injured. Eyewitnesses speak of an ideologically motivated clash as the attackers are known to belong to far-right front. The brawl started when a group of …

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Αnti-vaxxers clashed with police in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, outside the premises of Thessaloniki International Fair where Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis delivered an important speech that included economic police measures. Hundreds of protesters against Covid-19 vaccination, among them also families with children, gathered in downtown Thessaloniki on Saturday afternoon. At some …

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For the first time in Turkey a foreign diplomat and thus the Greek Foreign Minister did not mince his words and told Ankara what its neighbor think of a series of illegal actions and claims. The joint statements of guest Greek FM Nikos Dendias and host Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu …

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Protesters of lockdown restrictions clashed with police in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Friday night. police fired teargas and flash grenades and detained five people. Two policemen injured. Holding Greek flags in their hands a few dozen people gathered near the White Tower following a call on social media. Their aim …

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With tear gas and batons riot police went against hospital workers in downtown Athens on Wednesday morning. Protesters marched to the Health Ministry demanding a meeting with the Minister. However, police did not allow them to come closer. The union of public hospital workers POEDIN demands extension of work contracts …

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Six people were injured in a  clash between Greeks and Albanians in Gerakas, East Attica, early Monday morning. The two groups met following calls on social media. Police suspects the clashes had to do with the shooting of the member of Greek minority in South Albania the previous day. One …

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Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis and the President of the Council of State Nikolaos Sakellariou clashed on Sunday over the wealth statements of Greece’s judges who are supposed to disclose their assets. Recently the Council of State had frozen the Law requirement for judges to submit wealth statements. Kontonis attacked saying …

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One man was stabbed to death and three others were injured in a clash that erupted among Afghans in the village of Pamfila on the island of Lesvos late Sunday evening. The brawl reportedly started in a house that was rented by Afghans some 4 km away from the Moria …

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Riot police squads had rushed as early as possible outside a shop in the old city of Rethymnon, Crete, and blocked the street to prevent locals from approaching. A representative of a US Fund was to  install an alarm system at the shop the Fund had seized after buying the …

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Armenian protesters clashed with police outside the Turkish Consulate in downtown Thessaloniki on Monday evening.  The tension started when a group of Armenian youth attempted to hang a memo at the entrance of the consulate. Greek authorities did not allow that, the angry protesters freaked out throwing objects to police, …

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Anger, brawl, smash, sticks, stones, tear gas, sound flares, injuries, detentions. This is the picture at Vathis Square in downtown Athens on Wednesday morning, after hundreds of angry farmers from Crete set out to protest taxation and social security contributions. First, the farmers first got angry because of  the presence …

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Tension between protesting hotel employees and riot police escalated outside the Labor Ministry on Tuesday morning, when the workers in Greece’s tourism industry attempted to enter the ministry building. Riot police squads assigned to safeguard the ministry did not wait long to swing their batons and clash with the angry …

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Members PAME, the union of Greek Communist party KKE clashed with police on Friday morning as they attempted to come close to the office of the Prime Minister. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades after protesters broke the police cordon. But protesters were not discouraged and ended up delivering …

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Protesting farmers clashed with riot police at the Athens-Lamia highway near Anthili area on Wednesday morning. the situation got out of control when the farmers moved to the daily blocking of the highway in the context of their broader protests. The farmers hurled stones, oranges, wood pieces and other items …

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 Madame and Madame have totally different points of view on Greece’s bailout. Christine Lagarde, head of  IMF, favors a new written off of Greek debt saying that the bailout program has failed. OK, she doesn’t say it so clear, but that’s the substance. Angela Merkel, German Chancellor and head of …

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Is “Cheese-eater” a no-no word? It looks so if we want to believe British Tony Metcalfe, editor in chief of Metro news papers in the USA. On the occasion of European reactions and Americans cheers to the killing of Osama bin Laden, Metcalfe wrote on his blog: “Given the celebrations …

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