Patriotic Union

Holding banners reading "We accept refugees, isolate the fascists," demonstrators on Tuesday gathered outside Oraiokastro Town Hall to pledge solidarity with refugee children attending schools in the town near Thessaloniki.

The gathering was organized by the local women's association and members of the People's Committee of Oraiokastro, and also included a march through the town.

Teachers from various schools in Oraiokastro, a small town near Thessaloniki, on Wednesday gathered outside the 1st Elementary School to express their solidarity with a group of refugee children attending afternoon classes there.

Police officers stand in front of members of the self-proclaimed Patriotic Union of Greek Citizens of Oraiokastro, who gathered Tuesday outside an elementary school in the small town near Thessaloniki to protest the presence of child migrants in afternoon classes. It was the third protest by the group in a week.

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.

Riot police were dispatched to a primary school in Oraiokastro, near Thessaloniki, on Monday when tensions escalated between a group of far-rightists protesting the presence of refugee children at afternoon classes and anti-fascists.