New clashes in Athens, Greece
New clashes happened in Athens today near Parliament, where about 200 youths began throwing rocks and other objects against the police, informed the station “Alpha”.
The radicals are divided between the Parliament and the University of Athens, which are within a distance of about 500 meters, attacking the police, who responded with tear gas, according to the radio “City”.
According to that station, among the demonstrators for several minors.
Reporters of the channel “Alpha” the site reported that the insurgency is much more radical among the demonstrators.
In the vicinity of the university, several people who took coffee in one of the terraces have arisen and started to throw stones against the police, for this to stop attacking the demonstrators, said the channel “Alpha”.
The disturbances occur from today on the same day that is called a general strike of 24 hours across the country in protest against the poor economic situation and in favor of more social justice.
For that reason, some 15 thousand people concentrated in the center of Athens in demonstrations called by major trade unions of workers and civil servants from the private sector and public.
The riots began last Saturday, when Alexandros Grigoropoulos of 15 years, died due to shooting of a police officer in Athens.
So today, the fourth consecutive day of riots and a day after the funeral of the teenager, thousands of students and teachers do demonstrations in the vicinity of Parliament and shout words of order in remembrance of the young man who died.
The Greek television reported that there was also violence in the port city of Thessaloniki in the north of the country, where the police arrested 12 people - most younger than 14 years - who played fruit and stones against the officers.
Police launched tear gas against demonstrators who were sheltered in the premises of the Aristotle University.
There were also violent incidents in Kavala, a city of about 70 thousand inhabitants in northeastern Greece, where protesters have launched objects against the police barracks.
“We left on the streets, despite the fear of incidents,” he said today Chair of the General Confederation of Workers of Greece (GSEE), Andreas Panagopoulos, who announced that the unions convene a new general strike for December 22, the day that Parliament vote the state budget.
Stathis Anestis, spokesman for the GSEE, told AFP in Athens that “the participation of various sectors in the strike was a huge success,” and added that “or the government changes its policy, or change the government.”