Tag Archives: riot police

The leadership of Greek police ordered an internal investigation against a riot policeman who hit a protesting cleaner on the head. Caught red-handed on a video, the footage shows an arm to be raised behind a shield and to hit cleaner Fotini Nikitara on the head. For no reason. At …

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This happened short before the old Finance minister Yiannis Stournaras handed over the Ministry files to the new fiance minister Gikas Hardouvelis. The protesting cleaners attempted to block the entrance of the building and it came as it was expected: The riot police pushed the cleaners away.     The …

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Riot police fired teargas to disperse protesters in downtown Athens on Sunday the day streets were full of people as the shops were open for Pal Sunday. Some dozens retail workers had gathered in  Athens’ main shopping street Ermou. The protesters were chanting slogans and holding banners against the shops …

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For one more day, a group of laid-off cleaning ladies had gathered outside Greek Finance Ministry to protest the loss of work place and income. A delegation even managed to meet with the general secretary of the ministry and submit their request  and thus in times of austerity and recession. …

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More than 15 riot police squads raided the building of former public broadcaster ERT at 4 a.m. Thursday morning. The raid took place five months after the overnight shut down of ERT on June 11th 2013.  ERT personnel was sacked. Journalists and technicians had been occupying ERT since then and …

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It is not unprecedented. It has happened in the past. Only that this time things got really out of control. Like the wildfires that hit Greece every summer. Monks of the Esfigmenou monastery hurled self-made molotov cocktail bombs against the police and the court baillif that had come to excecute …

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European Broadcast Union (EBU) put Greece’s shut down public broadcaster ERT back on air. On Thursday afternoon the program produced by occupying journalists reappeared on television screens in several Greek cities via analog signal. The decision to take steps to keep ERT on air was made by the EBU Executive …

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The row between Mayor of Athens and extreme-right Golden Dawn ended in police firing tear gas at Syntagma square on Thursday morning and the mayor to denounce that he was attacked by a GD lawmaker. The extreme-right party has announced to organize a food handout for “Greeks only” in front …

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The anti-austerity protest rally on Sunday could be considered as “successful”. If it wasn’t for this video….  Riot police pushes a protester to the ground, trying to put handcuffs around his wrists. The protester resists. The policeman keeps him down with his knee. The protester shouts for help. Other protesters …

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A fragile Greek granny appeared fearless in front of riot police in Ierissos Gold mining. During the protest on Thursday, the granny hoarsely sang a wartime revolutionary song and goaded riot police squads to come over. “Bullets and cannons do not scare us…” the granny sung under the surgery mask she …

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The symbolic occupation of the private office of general secretary of Finance Ministry Giorgos Mergos by members of the youth organization of left-wing SYRIZA ended in teargas and the injury of two MPs. Protesters moved to the office of Mergos and raised banners against the further lowering of minimum wage. …

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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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The strikers’ front in Piraeus broke apart in the early morning hours of Wednesday and at least three ferries left Piraeus port at six in the morning. Strong riot police forces and coast guards were deployed at the docks to facilitate the ferries loading and sailing off.  During the night …

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Protesting Muslims clashed with Greek riot police on Sunday afternoon, when the latter tried to prohibit them from marching to the US Embassy through the streets of downtown Athens.  Some 600 Muslims had gathered at Omonia Square at 3 p.m. to protest the film “The Innocence of Muslims”. They wanted to …

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Rare scenes in Greece: Protesting policemen were confronted by riot policemen, with the latter threatening the first, that they would fire tear gas. These unprecedented scenes occurred on Thursday morning outside the police academy in Goudi suburb of Athens. Protesting policemen had gathered outside the police academy in order to prohibit police squads …

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Members of extreme-right party Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) clashed with riot policeon over the transfer of 250-400 illegal immigrants to an army camp. The  incidents started on Thursday morning when police vehicles transported detained illegal immigrants to the army camp of the 6th Infantry Regiment near Corinth, in Northern Peloponnese.  Residents of …

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This had never happened before – at least not in Greece: that citizens take public servants as hostages and clash with riot police over tax evasion. There had been some incidents where residents of small communities attacked tax inspectors throwing stones. But clashing with police? Cutting water and electricity to a police …

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Clashes between strikers and riot police occurred twice on Monday outside the Halyvourgia steel plant. The incidents started when riot police squads allowed two loaded trucks to enter the steel plant. Strikers and riot police clashed, stones flew, clubs fell on backs and tear-gas was fired to disperse the angry …

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 Relatives of Marios Lolos, the chairman of the Greek Union of Photographers who suffered brain injuries by police seek eye-witnesses and footage material and/or pictures to help with the investigation. Marios Lolos was attacked by a policeman with a baton on the back of his head and suffered brain injuries on …

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UPDATE: The President of Greek Photo-Reporters Union, Marios Lolos is set to undergo brain surgery due to injury he suffered after beaten by riot police. According to the Photo Union,  Marios Lolos was submitted to the hospital with  “with traumatic brain injury caused by baton (fractured skull-impressed), injury which requires surgical …

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