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The 2021 Greek protests broke out in response to a proposed government bill that would allow police presence on university campuses for the first time in decades, [2] for which opposition groups accused the government of taking advantage of the COVID-19 lockdown to impose increasingly authoritarian measures. [6]
According to press reports, [10] two special guards (Ειδικοί Φρουροί) (a special category of the Greek police personnel, originally meant for guard duties on public property) [11] had been engaged in a minor verbal clash with a small group of teenagers in a main street of Exarcheia, outside a shop. On driving away in their police ...
On 14 August, a video was published showing CCTV footage of the clash. The footage shows a moment when Katsouris was hit by an unknown hooligan in his right arm, using a club-like object. [20] On the same day, Croatian weekly Nacional referring to the Greek police report, wrote that the clash between two parties was arranged in advance. [21]
ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek police briefly clashed with masked protesters waving red flags on wooden poles outside parliament on Thursday during demonstrations against plans to let foreign private ...
Police said the six men killed in a Sept. 11 car ambush outside Athens were believed to have been members of an international crime group and had made a brief stop in Greece en route to Turkey.
Loukanikos (Greek: Λουκάνικος: "the sausage loukaniko"), initially named "Theodor", was a Greek riot dog that participated in almost every anti-austerity protest in Greece. He was commonly known for joining protests, barking at police, helping in street battles with the Greek police as well as participating in anarchist rallies and ...
800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. ... groups said they interviewed 21 survivors and five relatives of people still missing as well as representatives of the Greek coast guard and the Greek police.
Most politicians did not condemn the police brutality. The government expressed its anger against "organized anarchist and extremist elements that stained the great commemoration of the people and brutally challenged the democratic and peaceful feelings of the Greek people" while the prime minister Georgios Rallis said that "Even Archangel Michael holds a sword to defend against demons.