Athens 13/12

At the moment (14:05) approximately 1000 people mainly school and university students are on the square. 200 riot policemen appeared from all directions and the protesters are enraged and shout slogans against them. (16:49) most of the protesters are on the square in front of the riot police, shouting slogans and demanding from the police to leave. A smaller group does the same on the steps that lead from the tube station to the street in front of of the square. (21:21) People are still on Sintagma square with riot police in front of them, no clashes were reported today there, apart from the intense hour I mentioned above when riot police appeared in the area. At approx 02:00 riot police surrounded the protesters and pushed them out of the Sintagma square opposite to the square over the tube station. One hour later at 3, again the police tried end the protest, they used some violence to achieve it, a girl lost its senses, finally the people left.

(21:21) A protest has been arranged at the point where the 15 year old was murdered one week ago, near Exarhia square

(same time) a while ago in Patission street there was an attack at the Ministry of Environment and Public Building. Also it was reported that a couple of banks and a McDonalds were smashed.

(22:32) A group of around 100 people attacked the police station of Exarhia. Now there are clashes with the police in the area (23:30) Clashes with the police outside the Polytechnic in Stournari street.

(22:50) a demonstration that was heading towards Psirri area, irrelevant with the previous events in Patission street, Sitagma Square and Exarhia was attacked without any obvious reason with grenades of light/sound and tear gases by riot policemen. Psirri is one of the most popular entertainment areas of Athens. (23:30) there is unconfirmed info that groups of this demonstration are being violently chased (00:00) The groups that were divided by the riot police are once again together demonstrating in Thissio, Dionisiou Aeropagitou str. (3:00) Some 50 people were reported taken by the police to the General Police Division of Athens for identification and few hours later were set free. Some of the arrested said that they were beaten by the police