Rioters leave a trail of destruction at university

After hours of clashes between self-styled anarchists and riot police officers that started on Thursday night and continued into the early hours of Friday, municipal workers cleared a ton of debris from the area around the National Technical University of Athens, where the unrest caused widespread damage.

Workers gathered chairs and broken doors that rioters had brought out into the streets from the hall at the NTUA where they had been holed up manufacturing the Molotov cocktails with which they pelted riot police.

There was also damage to traffic lights, road signs, sidewalks and parked cars.

Inside the university grounds, the damage was just as bad. Apart from graffiti-covered walls, the university's management discovered broken and burned doors, chairs and desks, smashed up marble stairs and beaten up fire extinguishers.

A total of 13 people were...