Serious incidents in Athens and Thessaloniki after the marches for Grigoropoulos – 35 arrests in total (Video – Photo)

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Athens and Thessaloniki turned into a battlefield – Unknowns entered the meter stop in Omonia and caused damage to validating machines

Serious incidents occurred in Athens and Thessaloniki after the memorial marches for the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos.

Athens and Thessaloniki turned into battlegrounds when people broke away from the ongoing marches and started throwing Molotov cocktails. In at least 19 introductions EL.AS advanced in the capital, while at least 16 people were brought to Thessaloniki and two police officers were injured. Two police officers were injured during the incidents in Auliza Acharnon

In the area of ​​Exarchia after the end of the march, unknown people set up barricades and set fire to bins in Akadimias and Benaki, with the police responding with chemicals and flash bangs.

A manhunt followed in the narrow streets with the police using tear gas.

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Incidents also occurred around Omonia where young people set up barricades and burned garbage bins. At the same time, damage was also noted to the validation machines at the “Omonoia” metro station.

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Shortly before the start of the march in Athens, the police made six arrests.

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Molotov cocktails, tear gas and fires in the center of Thessaloniki

Extensive incidents also occurred in the center of Thessaloniki shortly after 20:00 after the march ended. For more than 20 minutes there was “chaos” in the center of Thessaloniki.

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Hooded men outside the Turkish consulate, on Apostolou Pavlou Street, threw hundreds of Molotov cocktails, flares and stones at the police forces, who responded with the use of chemicals. Afterwards, the scene of the tension was moved to Olympiados Street. Buckets were engulfed in flames.

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Molotov cocktails caused damage to parked cars.

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