Greek Police, Protesters Clash In Athens Suburb
4 years ago

Greek Police, Protesters Clash In Athens Suburb

News 18  

Greek police clashed with more than 500 protesters in an Athens suburb on Sunday evening, using tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd. In an announcement, police say that a motorcycle patrol went to suburb Nea Smyrnis main square just before 3 p.m. Sunday to investigate multiple reports of violations of lockdown measures and that they were set upon by a group of 30 people who injured two police officers. With the number of new cases of the coronavirus still well above 1,000 daily, the Athens area as well as others across Greece are under a strict lockdown and police patrols conduct checks to see if people are keeping social distancing and refrain from traveling unnecessarily. Police say that they, on Saturday alone, they conducted 71,177 checks across the country, finding 2,025 violations; 1,627 concerned unauthorized movement, 304 non-wearing of masks and 91 illegal operation of businesses.

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Associated Press  

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Al Jazeera  

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