GREECE: Protesters in Athens clash with hooded youths who try to disrupt austerity demonstration

Record ID: 708334

  • Title: GREECE: Protesters in Athens clash with hooded youths who try to disrupt austerity demonstration
  • Date: 21st October 2011
  • Summary: ATHENS, GREECE (OCTOBER 20 2011) (REUTERS) HOODED YOUTHS ATTACKING OTHER PROTESTERS DURING LARGE PROTEST PROTESTERS WITH FLAGS HITTING THE OTHER HOODED PROTESTERS HOODED PROTESTERS THROWING PETROL BOMBS AT THE OTHER PROTESTERS HOODED PROTESTERS CHASING THE OTHER PROTESTERS OTHER PROTESTERS CHASING HOODED PROTESTERS BOTH SIDES STRIKING EACH OTHER, RED PAINT ON THE STREETS AND ON PROTESTERS, THROWN BY YOUTHS, FLASH BOMB EXPLODING BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS BRAWLING WITH EACH OTHER PROTESTERS RUNNING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, YOUTHS THROWING STONES AT PROTESTERS, YOUTHS THROWING MOLOTOV COCKTAILS AT PROTESTERS HOODED YOUTHS HITTING OTHER PROTESTERS WITH STICKS, PROTESTERS STRIKING BACK WITH STICKS, CHASES YOUTHS, VARIOUS OF THE TWO CLASHING ON THE STREET YOUTHS THROWING MORE MOLOTOV COCKTAILS INTO THE CROWD OF PROTESTERS, THROWING STONES YOUTHS RUNNING AWAY AFTER POLICE INTERVENE WITH TEAR GAS POLICE STEP IN AND FIRE TEAR GAS AMONG BRAWL
  • Embargoed: 5th November 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Greece, Greece
  • Country: Greece
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAD8JGPJKY08TVSSIO6ZRUD3P3W
  • Story Text: Hooded youths clashed with protesters during a mass march in Athens on Thursday (October 20) against the government's austerity bill being voted on in parliament.
    The peaceful protest of tens of thousands was disrupted when the demonstrators began to clash amongst each other.
    Hooded youths threw molotov cocktails and smoke bombs at other protesters, who struck back with the flags they were carrying during the protest. Police did not intervene in the beginning, but later stepped in to push back the hooded youths, firing tear gas.
    The clashes took place outside the parliament building in central Athens, where the waves of protesters had gathered to oppose the austerity bill, which cuts wages and jobs, in demonstrations organized by the country's main labour unions.
    The unions called a strike on Thursday, the second day of labour action. On Wednesday a protest of more than 100,000 erupted in violence for hours with youths throwing petrol bombs and setting fires in the city.
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