Tag Archives: Rally

Emergency traffic restrictions are in effect in downtown Athens, starting at noon on Thursday, March 14, 2024, due to a protest rally organized by student associations and educational unions against the bill for private universities. In order to ensure the right of the citizens to assemble, the Greek police will …

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Police in Thessaloniki has banned public gatherings on Tuesday amid concerns about a rally organized by ultra-conservatives to protest “Aδέσποτα Σώματα” – Stray Bodies – a documentary to be screening tonight in Thessaloniki. “Αδέσποτα Σώματα” – “Stray Bodies”  in English – is a documentary by Elina Psykou that explores the …

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Εight students were transferred to hospitals with injuries in the head and the arms they sustained by police batons during the big protest rally against the bill for “private universities.” The students were injured when a group of protesters clashed with riot police forces outside the Greek Parliament opposite the …

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To honor the tradition of Tsiknopempti, students protesting the bill for private universities,set up a grill and put their diplomas on hot charcoal. they raised a banner reading “Mitsotakis Tavern S.A. sells off our degrees.” It should be recalled that Tsiknopempti is the day where Greeks traditionally grill and roast …

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A total of 138 tractors have lined up in front of the Greek Parliament in downtown Athens on Tuesday. Thousands of farmers from across Greece but also unionists from several sectors and a crowd of ordinary citizens join their voices for a common cause. #ΑΓΡΟΤΕΣ #Συνταγμα #αγροτες pic.twitter.com/ctXECSFk55 — newsbreak.gr …

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With tractors, buses and private vehicles, thousands of farmers from all over Greece are descending to downtown Athens for the big protest rally scheduled on Tuesday, February 20, 2024. Initially the Ministry for Citizen’s Protection did not consent to tractors rally in the city, however, the farmers insisted and the …

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Determined to continue their struggle, farmers decided on Thursday for a mass protest rally with tractors and agricultural machinery in Athens, next week. At the same time, they will continue the road blockades including the “shut down” of trucks’ access to customs and ports. The rally in Athens is scheduled …

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In a crucial meeting held in Nikaia by Larissa, central Greece, on Tuesday representatives of farmers decided to escalate their mobilizations with simultaneous blockades of national roads and customs as of tomorrow, February 7, 2024, and to hold a protest rally with their tractors next week. Farmers in the country …

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Extensive road traffic restrictions will come into effect ahead of the 50th Athens Polytechnic Uprising anniversary, to be commemorated with a mass rally across the city center on Friday, November 17, 2023. Road traffic will gradually be restricted until it is closed off entirely on the day, starting at 06:00 …

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Greek police have arrested a Palestinian man, who climbed up a street light  with Palestinian flag at pro-Palestinian rally outside the Parliament on Sunday. The 22-year-old climbed a light post and attached a pole with the Palestinian and Greek flags. Footage of his actions was later circulated on social media, …

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Twenty-one Italian Neo-fascists were detained at the Athens airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” and were taken to Police headquarters late on Tuesday. They were denied entry to Greece for “reasons of national security.” They had flown to Athens to participate to events marking the anniversary of the killing of two neo-Nazi Golden …

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Thousands of protesters marched to the Israeli Embassy in Athens on Sunday calling for an end to hostilities and the killing of Palestinians in Gaza. Chanting “Freedom for Palestine”, protesters passed in front of the Israeli Embassy for about half an hour, demanding a “Stop to the slaughter of the …

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Minister of Citizen Protection Takis Theodorikakos ordered an investigation on the police actions during the Sunday’s protest rally for the train collision in Tempi. The Minister of Citizen Protection, Takis Theodorikakos, ordered an immediate investigation into the actions of police officers during the rally and protest march for the fatal …

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Α weird march with some one hundred young men, among them also minors, took place in downtown Athens on Sunday night. The crowd gathered to express support for the controversial British-American “influencer” and misogynist Andrew Tate, currently in Romanian prison on charges of human trafficking, rape, criminal organization with the …

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Five metro stations in downtown Athens will close to the public on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, due to the traditional protest rally to commemorate the anniversary of the Polytechnic School Students’ Uprising in 1973. According to a statement issued by Greek Police on Tuesday evening, the following metro stations will …

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With Greek flags, religious symbols and chanting “Orthodoxy or Death” thousands of anti-vaxxers gathered at outside the Greek Parliament at Syntagma square on Sunday evening, in the first gathering of this kind after the summer vacations. The   crowd, some 7,500 people, was a heterogeneous crowd of religious fanatics, extreme far-rights, …

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Greek Police (ELAS) is forming a case file for the mass students’ protest rally in downtown Athens on Thursday. The file contains charges that the rally violated the laws forbidding crowding and the recent law banning public gatherings with over 100 people. Furthermore, there was no official announcement by the …

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Students organization, citizens, leftist parties and collectives, some 3,000 people marched through from Syntagma Square in downtown Athens and to the US Embassy on Wednesday afternoon to express solidarity with protesters in USA and demand justice for George Floyd. The main slogans to be heard in this anti-racism, anti-fascist rally …

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Pita bread, pork chunks, tomato, onions, parsley, french fries and sauce. This is the traditional souvlaki, Greeks’ top junk food. Now Greek are shocked to hear the price for favorite quick and cheap meal is going to climb to 3 euros from 2.20 currently as of May 1, 2019. The …

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Stones, pieces of marbles and wood, iron bars and crow bars, sledgehammers, nails, flares, and makeshift projectiles were used by extreme right wing “patriotic’ protesters against riot police forces during the Macedonia rally last Sunday. For three hours, from 14:25 to 17:20, the protesters were attacking the riot forces as …

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