Doctors, members of unions, journalists, and witnesses brought charges against Greece and its authorities.
“Out of pure luck no one got killed,” said doctors and witnesses confronting a hard reality in Syntagma Square, during the 48-hour strike that took place last week.
Members of Association of Doctors Hospital in Athens and Piraeus mentioned that police officers attacked them and volunteers, although they were trying to offer assistance to injured participants.
There was a woman with a heart condition who could not walk and people were carrying her in order to save her life and bring her to a secure place.
Another witness stressed that riot police was hitting directly to the head, throwing stones at protesters and hurting innocent people with batons.
According to doctors and witnesses, there were many people with burns due to authorities’ use of chemicals and crackers at demonstrators.
N. Adamopoulos, chairman of the Labor Union in N. Ionia stated that a riot squad almost trampled over him.
According to some other witnesses, riot police attacked around 200 people who were demonstrating peacefully in a square, proving that there was a specific order to destroy every peacefully demonstration.
Journalists were also attacked. Although they kept saying that they should let them do their job. A member of the press became deaf after police through a cracker right next to him. Doctors were trying to assist under adverse conditions.
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