Prosecutor takes action over anti-migrant protest at school

A prosecutor in Thessaloniki has demanded the arrest of all the "protagonists" in a violent incident outside an elementary school on Monday, sparked by a group protesting the attendance of nine migrant children from a nearby refugee camp.

First Instance Thessaloniki Prosecutor Lambros Tsongas also called on Tuesday for an investigation into the violence, which started when a group calling itself the "Patriotic Union of Greek Citizens of Oraiokatsro" gathered outside the town's First Elementary School, shouting racist slurs and protesting a scheme to induct migrant children from camps into the Greek public school system as the pupils came out of class.

The same school has been the site of previous protests by far-right proponents trying to block the scheme, with members of the so-called Patriotic Union staging rallies and chaining themselves to the courtyard fence.