Riot Police
Greece
Thousands of Participants in 41st Anniversary Rally of Athens Polytechnic Uprising [Video]
Some 20,000 to 25,000 Greeks participated in the annual protest rally to the US Embassy on Monday evening, marking the 41st anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising of November 17, 1973. The demonstration was policed by more than 7,000 officers, who...
Education
Second Day of Student Demonstrations in Athens Ahead of November 17 Anniversary
With no further tension and clashes was completed the second successive Pan-educational demonstration in Athens earlier today. Students, along with administrative employees and teachers, protested against the presence of police outside central university buildings in downtown Athens, accusing the...
Education
Student Protest Brings Back Greek Riot Memories Prior to Anti-junta Anniversary in Athens
Tensions were high at a student protest against Greek government's decision to keep universities closed before the Greek Anti-junta Anniversary fearing riots. Watch video and exclusive photos.
Crime
Riot Policeman Found Guilty for Attack on Photojournalist
On Thursday, a Greek Misdemeanors Court handed down an eight-month jail sentence, suspended pending appeal, to a 27-year-old riot police officer found guilty of striking photojournalist Tatiana Bolari while she was covering a protest rally in downtown Athens on October...
Greece
Protestors Tear-Gassed in Downtown Athens
Despite the protest ban by the Greek Police due to the Ecofin and Eurogroup meeting, a demonstration was held on Tuesday, April 1 in downtown Athens, organized by the major opposition party SYRIZA, the All Workers Militant Front (PAME) and...
Greece
Scuffles Between Unions and Riot Police
Greek unionists clashed with the riot police on Thursday during a demonstration by the Greek Trade Union Front (PAME). Police used tear gas and pepper spray to crack down on the demonstrators.
Greek police have banned protests in parts of central...
Diaspora
Foreign Media Reports on ERT Intervention
Early this morning, international news agencies began to broadcast the police operation in ERT. The police operation took place just after 4 o'clock in the morning local time, when few of the former employees were in the building. Here...
Greece
Clashes Between Riot Police and LARKO Workers
The rally of the Larco General Mining and Metallurgical Company workers ended with seven arrests and three injured protesters. The protest took place at the interchange of Martino on the National Road Athens –Lamia, when there were clashes between...
Greece
Unpaid Dodoni Dairy Farmers Protest
Hundreds of breeders from Epirus, a Region northwestern of Greece, gathered July 26 outside the Dodoni dairy factory, demanding to be paid for the milk they had delivered and for which they said they had bot been compensated.
Reports said...
Greece
Riot Police Surround Athens Rectorate Building
The police proceeded to 20 arrests while the fire service was called to open the door of the Rectorate building where students were locked in order to avoid being arrested.
On the morning of July 8 there was unrest at...