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The situation at Greece’s northern borders escalated when police on the FYROM side fired tear gas and stun grenades against refugees Monday noon. A few hundred of refugees, women and men holding their kids in their arms took down the border fence, broke a gate and tried to enter FYROM. …

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Molotov cocktails and fire bombs. Stones and wooden sticks. Anarchists or so-called ‘antiauthotirarians’ with hoods have launched an attack against riot police squads in down town Athens. Τhe attacks were expected on this Sunday, the 7, Anniversary of the murder of teenager boy, Alexis Griogoropoulos by a police special guard. …

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A long expected reaction came today: riot police fired tear gas against people who had gathered outside the occupied the Athens University. According to the first information a group of anti-authoritarians had gathered outside the Athens University that was cordoned by riot police since yesterday. the University has been occupied …

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In other Greek news away from the Greek debt… the government proceeded with some important changes concerning protests and police presence. Two rallies held on Saturday took place without armed police, without combat shields, without use of tear gas and with the metro stations open. This was a decision by …

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Riot police and protesting members of communist union PAME clashed on Thursday morning in Athens. Police fired tear gas and scuffled with protesters, Greek media report of several protesters to have suffered head injuries, among them also Babis Aggourakis, lawmaker from communist party KKE. embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt The …

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Stones flew through the air and tear gas was fired when angry milk producers broke into a dairy company in Ioannina, western Greece. Hundreds of milk farmers gathered on Friday morning outside “Dodoni” milc factory demanding their money. “We have been unpaid for four months, we cannot feed our families,” …

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Riot police fired tear gas in Athens university when students and administrative personnel attempted to disturb a meetings of professors discussing cuts in education and lay-offs.  Greek media report that  a group of students invaded the building and that some of the board members called the police. Outside the university at Panepistimiou …

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Violent incidents broke out in downtown Athens when riot police hindered protesters to come closer to several hotels near the Greek Parliament at Syntagma Square. Protesters started to hurl stones, flares and molotov cocktails bombs against the policemen, while the latter answered with tear gas. Greek media report that the …

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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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Teargas was fired and unionists were beaten outside the Labour Ministry in downtown Athens when riot police moved to ‘free’ the ministers’ office symbolically occupied by members of Greek Communist Party (KKE) union PAME. Video: riot police carries protester outside the ministry video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Around 10.30 in …

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The day started with an operation of riot police detaining 101 anti-authoritarians who had re-occupied the building called “Villa Amalia” in downtown Athens. While the building was under police guarding,  occupiers were divided in two groups: one group distracted police’ attention, while the other broke the padlocks and entered the …

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Clashes sparked between school-, universty-students and riot police around Omonia square in downtown Athens during the protest rally to commemorate the assasination of teenager boy Alexis Grigoropoulos, 15, on 6. December 2008. It looks as if the clashes started when somebody hurled a petrol bomb against the riot police. However, the molotov cocktail …

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Teargas, hurled stones,  minor injuries and detentions make the scenery of the protest in Skouries where several hundreds residents gathered and local organisations on Sunday to protest gold mining facilities. While the incidents are not covered by mainstream television channels, a number of newsportals and tweets ( Twitter #skouries also reporting  in English) report …

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Greece fevers with a massive 24-hour general strike as more than 30 trade unions participate in the anti-austerity mobilization organized by public and private sector unions ADEY and GSEE. The strike comes just days before the announcement of an additional austerity package of 11.5 billion euro and extra taxes of 2 …

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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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This that did not happened a couple of weeks ago, occurred on Thursday morning. Riot Police fired tear gas against protesting policemen, firefighters and coastal guards. Riot Police vs Protesting Police According to Greek media, the unionists had formed a human chain outside the Maximos Mansion in order to prevent …

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“Tear gas has exhausted its effectiveness, we’re thinking to use water against rioters,” Greek Minister of Citizen protection Nikos Dendias said on Wednesday. Speaking to Real FM, Dendias described the use of water as an “attempt by the Greek police to focus on more modern ways.” As the autumn is expected to …

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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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 Former Minister for Citizens’ Protection and aspiring PASOK leader Christos Papoutsis defended his work at the ministry and the (often extensive) use of tear gas during protests in Athens and other Greek cities. He said that chemicals are better than water and that he never gave orders to police to dissolve …

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Several hundreds high-school students gathered outside the Greek Parliament at Friday noon to protest the conditions in the education and the general situation of the country due to the harsh austerity. The students were chanting slogans, holding banners and even had a sit-in protest. However, tension rose as they started …

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