Athens Polytechnic University

Members of the public and student groups gather at the building of the Athens Polytechnic University in central Athens on Thursday, during the three-day commemoration of the 1973 student uprising, which marks its 50-year anniversary this year. [Yiannis Liakos/Intime News]

The US Embassy in Greece alerted American citizens about the planned demonstrations on Friday in Athens and Thessaloniki, commemorating the Athens Polytechnic University student uprising against the ruling military junta in 1973. 

Three people who were detained on Monday during a police raid in squats in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia were charged with disturbing the peace.
The suspects were identified as two Greek nationals, aged 41 and 57, and a French national, aged 65.

A group of university students heading the annual march marking the anniversary of a bloody 1973 student uprising against the military dictatorship sang the national anthem outside the American Embassy in Athens on Saturday.

The students, carrying a blood-stained Greek flag, chanted slogans, then folded the flag and left.

About 100 anarchists took part in the so-called "Uprising Festival" held November 12-14 on the premises of the Athens Polytechnic University, near the central Exarchia district, Kathimerini understands.

Around 40 hooded anti-establishment protesters threw petrol bombs and stones at riot police in central Athens on Saturday, setting fire to a trolley bus.

Police fired teargas to try and control the crowd outside Athens Polytechnic University, near the central Exarchia district, a Bohemian quarter popular with artists and left-wing intellectuals.