After the end of the demonstrations that took place today in Thessaloniki, on the occasion of the fatal train accident in Tempi, incidents took place in Aristotelous Square, at the height of the Statue of Venizelos.
Police responded with stun grenades and chemicals at masked people who threw Molotov cocktails.
Specifically, the incidents broke out at the end of the march that started in the afternoon from Kamara, in which people from the anti-authoritarian space, students, and independent unions participated, and which moved along I. Dragoumi and Tsimiski streets and after passing in front of the New Railway Station ended at the statue of Venizelos.
Earlier, hooded individuals set fire to four trash cans on Tsimiski Street, damaged the windows of two shops and a bank branch on I. Dragoumi Street, and spray-painted slogans on the Bank of Greece building.
The other march, more massive, which started from the statue of Venizelos, made up of labor unions, PAME forces, political movements, students and schoolchildren – to which was added a section of forces of the extra-parliamentary Left from the Kamara march – moved on the street Tsimiski and on Lagada Street and after passing in front of YMATH, it ended, peacefully, on Agios Dimitriou Street, at the height of Iasonidou Street.
Source: AMPE