Protesting farmers and livestock breeders in Central Greece clashed with riot police on Thursday, when they broke a police cordon and climbed to the road junction in Karditsa on foot. Earlier riot police had fired tear gas and flash bangs at the hundreds of protesters. The situation was out of …
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Firefighters: “Heroes” in summer, beaten & teargassed in autumn
The violent crackdown on protesting seasonal firefighters at the Ministry of Climate Change & Civil Protection late on Thursday has triggered an outrage. The “heroes” the government hails and is proud of in summer, loves to beat and teargas in autumn. Riot police forces fired teargas in the corridors of …
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Citizen Protection Minister orders investigation into police firing tear gas
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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Tear gas in concert in Thessaloniki campus has crowd run in panic (videos)
Greek riot police fired tear gas and made use of a water cannon during clashes with students in Thessaloniki on Friday night. The clashes in the city center and main Egnatia road erupted after police fired tear gas on a concert attended by some 5,000 people in the campus of …
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“Heroes” in August, “troublemakers” in November: Riot police attacks firefighters (videos)
With tear gas and water canon, riot police attacked firefighters who staged a peaceful protest on Friday demanding better pay and working conditions as well as permanent work contracts. One protester, a seasonal firefighter, has been injured from sound flares and may have one finger ambutated. Five protesters were detained. …
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Police beats students protesting Greece’s new Education bill (videos)
With teargas and sound flares Greek police cracked down student protests in Athens and Thessaloniki on Wednesday. Students, teachers, academics, high school students, parents marched through the cities against the Education bill that provides among others,he presence of police at universities. Thousands of #students protest for yet another week in …
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Citizen Protection Minister sees “150 molotov cocktail” even if not one around…(videos)
Opposition parties SYRIZa and MeRA 25 are at war of words with the Ministry of Civil Protection that justified the firing of tear gas against people waiting for the verdict of neo-nazi Golden Dawn outside the Appeals court on Wednesday. In a tweet Civil Protection Minister, Michalis Chysochoidis stated that …
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Police fires tear-gas at protesters against bill to curtail public gatherings rights
Tear-gas and sound flares, chasing and bulling, stones and molotov cocktail bombs. The protest against the bill that limits rights to public gatherings started peacefully but soon turned downtown Athens into a battlefield on Thursday evening. With main slogans “No tolerance to the their plans,” and “the bill remains on …
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Athens: Solidarity rally for George Floyd and Black Lives Matter
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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Riot police fires tear gas at young people hanging out in Athens suburb
Riot police fired teargas to disperse a crowd of young people hanging out at the main square of Agia Paraskevi suburb of northern Athens late on Tuesday. It was the second night youngsters gathered there in a kind of open party with take-away drinks as bars and cafes are still …
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Tension, tear gas, flash grenades as Athens police clear more squats
Tension, tear gas, flash grenades: this was the cocktail being served up in the central Athens district of Koukaki on Wednesday morning, as police launched a three-pronged operation to clear three squatted buildings in the area. When the squatters defied police orders to vacate the buildings, police fired flash grenades …
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Exarchia: Police raids squat cafe, fires tear gas in enclosed space
One more sequel of the Greek Police series “Law and order” took place in Exarchia on Thursday night. Riot police raided a squat cafe and used tear gas against the people, although it is illegal to fire tear gas in close environment. According to reports, police forces broke the door …
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Clashes and extensive use of tear gas at Macedonia rally, 44 injured (videos)
Macedonia protesters clashed with riot police outside the Greek Parliament on Sunday during the big rally against the Prespes Agreement. Armed with sticks a group of men tried to break the police cordon and enter the Parliament building in downtown Athens. The reaction by riot police was prompt with extensive …
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Protesting teachers clash with Greek police, get tear gassed
Riot police fired tear gas at striking teachers attempting to raid the Greek Parliament on Thursday. Holding sticks with red flags, members of the communist union first tried to reach the parliament building through the stairs of the Monument of the Unknown Soldier. When their attempts failed, they tried to …
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Greek police fires tear gas at protesting teachers demanding jobs (picts,video)
Tension and tear gas at the protest organized by teachers in downtown Athens on Friday. The marched through the city center and at one point a big crowd attempted to reach the prime ministry mansion. As expected, riot police did not let protesters prevail and fired tear gas to disperse …
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Police fires teargas at municipality workers protesting kindergartens legislation
Riot police fired teargas at protesting municipality workers outside the Greek Parliament in downtown Athens on Monday. The protester had been waiting for a meeting with politicians in charge of education and kindergartens. As this did not seem to take place, the protesters lost their patience and started to push …
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PAOK-AEK supporters deliver tough clashes, 70 people injured VIDEO
Supporters of Football Clubs PAOK and AEK launched a stone war earlier today in Volos in Central Greece. They turned the football field and surrounding areas into a real battlefield. Police has fired tear gas and sound flares but the brawl continues as KTG writes the post at 07:10 pm …
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Thessaloniki: Anarchists clash with police and nationalists (videos)
Clashes between anarchists and police forces occurred Sunday noon in Thessaloniki around the White Tower. The clashes began when anarchists attacked a passerby, whom they considered to be member of a nationalist group that held a demonstration nearby. The atmosphere was tense ever since the morning, as some 20 members …
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Greek police fires teargas at elderly protesters (video, picts)
Greek police fired teargas at protesting pensioners when the few hundreds to elderly men and women attempted to break the police cordon and walk towards the office of the Prime Minister. some pensioners commented “Thanks for the treat!” via @MakisSinodinos Pensioners from several sectors had come to downtown Athens in …
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Idomeni: FYROM fires teargas at fence protesters, Greece deploys riot police
Some 30 young men with their faces covered moved towards the border fence around 12 o’ clock on Wednesday and tried it bring it down. FYROM police fired stun grenades. Soon the situation escalated as more men joined the protest and FYROM police went over to fire tear gas. At …
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