2023-11-02 04:43:34
by Foreign Editorial Staff
Those arrested for the violence would be 39 in total: the Italians are neo-Nazi exponents. The attacks on a subway carriage in a station in the center of the capital
In Athens 39 people were arrested after clashes between far-right and anti-fascist groups. Among those arrested there were also 21 Italians, members of CasaPound. The scene of the attacks, organized yesterday evening by a group of around 30-40 neo-fascists, was the Monastiraki metro station, in the center of the Greek capital. This was reported by the Efsyn website, according to which far-right militants, dressed in black and with their faces covered, broke into a carriage of a metro train causing material damage. During the attack, a woman was injured and taken to hospital, the site reports.
After the attack, the neo-fascists headed into the surrounding alleys in the center of the capital. Yesterday the Greek police had deployed over three thousand officers following the announcement of a far-right rally, in the suburb of Neo Iraklio, to commemorate the death of two Golden Dawn militants which occurred on November 1, 2013. In the same suburb hundreds of demonstrators gathered yesterday afternoon to participate in an anti-fascist rally. At the end of the event, according to Hellenic police sources cited by Efsyn, some anti-fascist militants gathered in Victoria Square, where clashes occurred with the police, who reacted to the opponents’ stone throwing with the use of smoke bombs. Overall, the police stopped 39 people following the clashes that occurred yesterday, Efsyn reports.
November 2, 2023 (modified November 2, 2023 | 03:43)
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