EJP | News | Anti neo-nazis clashes in Athens

Hundreds of anarchists and left wing demonstrators clashed with police, who were trying to keep them apart from a gathering of neo-Nazis in central Athens on Saturday. The anarchists, many wearing helmets and masks, threw petrol bombs and stones at riot police who responded with tear gas while the neo-Nazi demonstrators dispersed after an earlier tense stand-off between the two groups. The clashes occurred in the Exarchia student quarter where some 150 members of the extreme right-wing group Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) had gathered outside their headquarters to protest a ban on Eurofest, a planned gathering of European neo-Nazi and fascist parties in Greece this weekend. The right-wing demonstrators, mostly young and wearing helmets, waved Greek flags and brandished black shields emblazoned with a Celtic cross, as they listened to speeches by their leader and the Italian head of extreme right-wing party, Forza Nuova, Roberto Fiore. . Fiore claimed Eurofest had taken place in Italy last weekend. siehe auch: Anarchists clash with police as neo-Nazis meet. A pedestrian runs away after being caught in the middle of a tense stand-off between anarchists and a meeting of ultra-right-wing group Chryssi Avgi in central Athens on Saturday afternoon. Riot police intervened to prevent the confrontation and were attacked with Molotov cocktail bombs and rocks, Neo-Nazi-Aufmarsch in Athen (Griechenland). ca. 80 Faschisten versuchten am Abend des 17.09. in der Innenstadt Athens zu demonstrieren. Das wurde durch eine massive Kampagne von Antifas und Anarchisten/innen erfolgreich unterbunden