Greece: Entrapment Of Occupiers By The Riot Police Inside A Building Provokes Protesters To Attack

Perseus999: On 16 April 2015, following 3 days of encirclement by scores of riot policemen of a university building, that had been occupied by anarchists for 18 days in the centre of Athens, Greece, in solidarity to a hunger strike of political prisoners (some of them for 47 days on that day) enraged protesters that gathered before a solidarity protest against destructive gold mining in Calkidiki in northern Greece and begun to throw bags of food and health essentials above the heads of policemen to the entrapped occupiers and then begun attacks that escalated into riot.


Trying to use scare tactics, during the previous days, riot policemen and policemen in plain clothes were arresting anyone coming in or out of the building, even unsuspected tourists that visited the city center, in an attempt to wear out the squatters with no food and health essentials.

Despite their efforts, anarchist occupiers remained in the building until the end of the mass hunger strike, and when they were offered to exit the building with no charges they stood by their political beliefs and chose not to leave, only to be mass arrested on a police operation on Friday 17 April 2015.

Βίντεο από τις συγκρούσεις με τα ΜΑΤ μπροστά από την αποκλεισμένη από αστυνομία Κατάληψη της Πρυτανείας Αθηνών στις 16 Απρίλη 2015 λίγο πριν την πορεία αλληλεγγύης στους κατοίκους της Χαλκιδικής ενάντια στην εξόρυξη χρυσού στις Σκουριές.