A massive protest against the Greece government this Sunday in Athens has ended with serious disturbances. There are cutatro police officers and a photojournalist hit by the head by a stunned grenade launched by the agents. So far there is 13 arrested In the center of the Greek capital, while they have also occurred damage to vehicles of the security forcesaccording to a police statement.
Incidents have occurred at the end of a demonstration to demand the conservative government justice for the trains accident that, mostly young university students. This protest has been attended by 30,000 people according to the police and around 100,000 according to the Greek media. It has been one of the most massive of recent years according to local media, and has elapsed without incident.
But at the end of this demonstration, a group of people has separated from the main march and has begun to throw Molotov cocktails and stones at agents riot, according to the police account. Police responded with tear gases and stunned grenades. The photoreporter Marios Liolios has been reached in the head by one of these grenades, launched by riot agents, during clashes between the police and protesters. Headers escorted by police with blood have also been seen.
According to the News247 portal, the police “suffocated” the great demonstration since when the agents began to launch tear gas tens of thousands of peaceful people, including elders and minors, they were still in the square and stayed practically “trapped” in the midst of riots. The Syriza leftist party accused the government of USar the Police to “try to disperse the crowd” that was manifested against “the cover -up of the crime of Tempe”, a town near which the accident occurred.
The mobilizations were convened by the association of relatives of victims of Tempe, where in 2023 the. “They knew it, they knew in detail the danger. They were playing with our lives and finally the trains collided,” he said in a speech during the María Karistianú demonstration, who lost his daughter Mothi in the accident.
To the shout of “murderers, murderers” and “no crime will be unpunished” the protesters gathered in front of the Greek Parliament to protest against what they consider an “attempt to cover up the crime of Tempe” and its main responsible by the conservative government of the first Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. re -elected after the accident by absolute majority, and promised to reform the rail system, although the European Commission indicates that the advances are slow.
More than 20,000 people, according to the local press, demonstrated in SALÓNthe second city of Greece, where they also registered altercados Between a group of protesters and the police, which arrested 23 people. Other mobilizations occurred in dozens of cities in Greece and also in European capitals such as London, Amsterdam ο Brussels.
