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Serious episodes broke out after its end. dynamic protest march against the police in the neighborhoods, in the Nea Smyrni area.
Shortly after 7 pm and as more than 10,000 protesters flooded the streets of Nea Smyrni and arrived at the local police station, the thermometer began to rise.
Tension erupted near the local police station when a group of people attacked with flares, rocks and Molotov cocktails.
The police responded with a harsh crackdown using chemicals and stunning as the aura attacked the protesters with water. Street chases followed, while the atmosphere in a very densely populated area is stifling. It is characteristic that residents of Byzantiou, Kydonion and Konstantinos Paleologos streets came out to the balconies and shouted at the MAT “what are you doing, you have drowned us with tear gas” and “get out of here”.
The situation calmed down after about an hour, while a police officer was injured and was taken by EKAB ambulance to a hospital.
SYRIZA condemnation: violence is not answered with violence
The episodes were unequivocally condemned by the official opposition in a statement, noting that “violence only justifies violence.
Analytically:
We unequivocally condemn those who forcibly chose to blacken a peaceful protest by thousands of Nea Smyrni residents, students, workers and merchants.
We unequivocally condemn the attack on a Greek police man.
Violence does not meet violence.
Violence only justifies violence.
However, a statement from the Ministry of Civil Protection before the incidents began, in which it ensures that the police seized Molotov cocktails before the march, while showing photos that show people allegedly holding iron bars.
At the same time, there is concern on social networks about an announcement by the “Truth Group” of New Democracy, with shots being fired during the citizens’ meeting in Nea Smyrni square, since the source of this video is unknown, and many accuse to this party. group that fired directly from the EL.AS drone.
