Greek Police admitted on Monday that it fired teargas in an area where children and families were hanging around in a neighborhood of Galatsi suburb of Athens on Sunday. Following persistent denouncements on social media since Sunday afternoon that a “5-year-old child was beaten by riot police,” the Police was …
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Newborn refugee baby Covid-19 positive; tension high in Kara Tepe
From the turbulent streets of Kara Tepe to the hospital in Mytilene: a 20-day-old refugee baby was transferred from the turbulent streets of Kara Tepe to the hospital in Lesvos’ capital Mytilene on Friday. The new born baby of Afghan origin developed fever and respiratory problems and was transferred to …
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Evros: Greek Army sets huge fan against Turkish teargas(video)
The Greek Army and Police have taken drastic measures to tackle the massive use of teargas hurled by Turkish forces and migrant from the other side of the border in Evros. The powerful fan has been installed on a specific 4×4 vehicle of the Greek Army. It generates big wind …
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Turkish police fires teargas at Greek forces as migrants try to cross (video)
Tension erupted again at the closed customs office of Kastenies at Evros, when a group of migrants attempted to cross into Greece on Wednesday morning. Greek security forces deterred them using teargas and sound flares, the migrants reportedly threw stones and other objects. It was initially though that it was …
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Moria asylum seekers stage protest, set fires, police fires teargas
Clashes between Moria asylum seekers and police erupted outside the town of Mytilini on the island of Lesvos on Monday morning, when approximately 2,000 people set to march to the port. Police fired teargas and sound flares against the men, women and children protesters. On their part, the asylum seekers …
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Molotov cocktails and tear gas at students’ protest rally in downtown Athens
Tension prevailed at the students protest in downtown Athens, when groups of people wearing hoods hurled molotov cocktail bombs and stones at riot policemen who responded with tear gas and sound flares. The rioters smashed the glass window of a cafe at Korai Square and one bank ATM. Outside the …
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Police fires teargas at rioters during anti-austerity protest on general strike day
Police fired teargas at rioters during the big anti-austerity protest in downtown Athens on Wednesday. Thousands joined the unions rally on the day of the general strike. People wearing hoods started to throw stones at riot police squads when the big rally of unions and political parties reached the building …
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Athens: High-school students protest rally ends in …fire-bombs throwing & teargas
Thousands of high-school students flocked to downtown Athens on Monday morning to demand a “a school system and a life they deserve”. However, the protest rally ended in the usual mess as in most of the cases. A group of authoritarians intermingled with the students and started to throw molotov …
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Thessaloniki: Teargas against austerity protesters outside SYRIZA offices
Greek riot police fired teargas against austerity protesters when they gathered outside the offices of governing party SYRIZA in Thessaloniki at Friday noon. Unionists and members of leftist parties gathered outside the SYRIZA office holding banners and chanting slogans. At one point, protesters tried to enter the offices and riot …
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Idomeni: PM Tsipras blasts FYROM over Sunday’s violence & “solidarity activists” for inciting refugees
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras blasted FYROM over the extensive use of violence against refugees and migrants on Sunday, when police and army units of the neighboring country fired teargas, rubber bullets and stun grenades for at least 5 hours within Greek territory.”It is a great shame for Europe,” Tsipras …
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Idomeni: At least 260 people hurt in incidents at Greece-FYROM borders
At least 260 migrants were hurt on Sunday when police fired tear gas at crowds of people as they tried to break through the Greece-Macedonia border, medical charity MSF said. “Two hundred people were treated by our medical unit for breathing problems, 30 for wounds caused by plastic bullets and …
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Idomeni: Children teargassed as FYROM goes against refugees in Greece
There has never happened before: that police of one country fires teargas on the soil of another country. FYROM police made extensive use of teargas and sound flares against refugees and migrants who are on Greece’s soil. The clashes started when a big crowd of refugees moved to the fence, …
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Molotov & teargas in Athens during big anti-austerity rally as 24h strike paralyses Greece (pcts, videos)
it was short around one o’ clock Thursday noon, when a raging crowd of some 60 people wearing hoods started to hurl molotov cocktail bombs at riot police squads around the Syntagma Square in downtown Athens during the big protest march against the pensions reform. Within minutes the raging crowd …
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Pensions Reform brings tractors to the streets: eggs and teargas as farmers threaten to “cut Greece into two” (picts, videos)
Farmers, cattle breeders, fishermen, milk producers, winegrowers, the whole productive sector of Greece, they are all down to the streets to express their opposition to the planned pension reform. From the north-east end of Greece down to the south in Crete, and from Thessaly and Peloponnese to Epirus and Corfu, …
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Police teargases angry farmers outside the Greek Parliament (videos)
Jeering, tear gas, sound flares, water bottles and oranges were the highlights of the farmers’ protest outside the Greek Parliament at Syntagma Square on Wednesday. More than 3,500 farmers, breeders and fishermen from all over Greece had gathered in Athens to protest taxation and social security reforms in their sector. …
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First anti-SYRIZA general strike and protest with teargas from the left
It must have been an awesome experience: to be a SYRIZA supporter, to have joined the anti-austerity protest and to be teargassed by the same government that you support. This interpretation of the incidents as it appeared in several Greek media is wrong. Police did not fired teargas against the …
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Athens: Protesters clash with riot police as lawmakers vote strictest austerity of all times (picts, videos)
Molotov cocktails and stones were hurled, tear gas and flares were fired: it needed a group of anti-authoritarians and just ten minutes to turn the area around the Parliament and Syntagma Square into a battle field. Vehicles and garbage bins were set on fire, shop windows and ATMs were smashed. …
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Athens: Police fired teargas amid Easter shoppers
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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Teargas and molotov in Athens antifa protest (picts, video)
Clashes between riot police and so-called “anti-authoritarians” erupted in Athens on Wednesday evening, when a group of antifa protesters marched towards the headquarters of extreme-right Golden Dawn in Mesogion avenue. The clashes started when 2,500-3,000 people left the antifa protest outside the Greek Parliament and started marching towards the GD …
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Skouries Gold Mine: Clashes between residents & police, tear gas in school
Broader clashes between angry residents and police started on Tuesday morning in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, the area where the disputed gold mining triggers tension. Greek media report that the residents started the incidents when they attempted to hinder police units from searching in some homes of the area. picture @katerinaelikaki Tear gas in school …
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