- Title: Greek police clash with protesters hurling petrol bombs at anti-austerity rally
- Date: 18th May 2017
- Summary: VARIOUS OF POLICE AND PROTESTERS WAVING THEIR FISTS IN THE AIR ON STEPS PROTESTERS ON A DIFFERENT SET OF STEPS HURLING PROJECTILES AT POLICE / HOODED PROTESTERS STRIKING POLICE OFFICERS' SHIELDS / POLICE OFFICER HITTING PROTESTER WITH BATON / FLARES THROWN BY PROTESTERS LANDING ON STEPS HOODED PROTESTERS THROWING PROJECTILES AT RIOT POLICE ON STEPS OF PARLIAMENT / PROTESTER WAVING STICK IN THE AIR / PETROL BOMBS AND FLARES EXPLODING / POLICE ENGULFED BY SMOKE RIOT POLICE IN FRONT OF PARLIAMENT / FLARE BEING FIRED AT POLICE / PROJECTILES BEING THROWN AT POLICE (AUDIO OF STUN GRENADE EXPLODING) MASKED PROTESTERS / PROTESTER THROWING PETROL BOMB / PETROL BOMB EXPLODING IN FRONT OF POLICE / PROTESTERS VOLLEYING PETROL BOMBS AT POLICE / PETROL BOMBS EXPLODING AROUND POLICE / CLOUD OF TEARGAS AROUND PROTESTERS / (AUDIO OF STUN GRENADE) PROTESTERS THROWING PETROL BOMBS/ PETROL BOMB EXPLODING AROUND POLICE AND SETTING KIOSK OF PRESIDENTIAL GUARD ALIGHT / PROTESTERS THROWING MORE PETROL BOMBS / RIOT POLICE SURROUNDED BY FLAMES VARIOUS OF HOODED PROTESTERS BREAKING BITS OF PAVEMENT AROUND SYNTAGMA SQUARE RIOT POLICE RUNNING TOWARDS PROTESTERS AND FIRING TEARGAS / PROTESTERS THROWING PROJECTILES AND PETROL BOMB (AUDIO OF STUN GRENADES EXPLODING) RIOT POLICE DETAINING PROTESTER
- Embargoed: 1st June 2017 21:17
- Keywords: clashes police austerity bailout protest Greece
- Location: ATHENS, GREECE
- City: ATHENS, GREECE
- Country: Greece
- Topics: Budget/Taxation/Revenue,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0026HDB22V
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Hooded protesters clashed with Greek police on Thursday (May 18) during an anti-austerity demonstration as lawmakers debated further spending cuts demanded by the country's international lenders in exchange for bailout funds.
A small group of hooded protesters broke away from a rally of about 10,000 demonstrators and hurled multiple rounds of petrol bombs at police guarding parliament. Police responded with teargas dispersing the crowd temporarily.
As the clashes broke out, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was delivering a speech in parliament defending proposed legislation which includes pension cuts and tax hikes to be implemented in 2019 and 2020, if adopted later on Thursday.
A vote was expected around midnight local time (2100 GMT).
The leftist-led government hopes that legislating the measures, four days before euro zone finance ministers meet in Brussels, will convince its lenders to release a 7.5 billion euro bailout tranche and grant it further debt relief. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
- Copyright Notice: (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2017. Open For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
- Usage Terms/Restrictions: None