Greek riot police fought a group of Athens businessmen who tried to prevent a tax inspection on their shops, officials said on Thursday, highlighting the resistance the government faces in cracking down on the country’s endemic tax evasion.
Four policemen were hospitalized with minor injuries after a group of about 50 protesters threw stones, set fire to garbage bins and hurled two firebombs at them in the rundown Athens suburb of Agia Varvara, a police official said.
“One officer was hit by a stone next to his right eye,” said the official who declined to be named. No one was arrested.
Tax officials conducted the raid after tip offs that shops in the area were selling clothes and accessories without giving receipts or were shifting counterfeit products.
(source: AP, Reuters)
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