Molotov cocktail

Tear gas was deployed in the Greek capital as protesters threw Molotov cocktails at riot officers. The stand-off took place after the authorities banned rival demonstrations by a police union and anarchists.

The violence erupted Thursday night near the National Technical University of Athens, in the city center, local media and Ruptly news agency reported.

No arrests were made on Thursday after clashes in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia between riot squads and self-styled anarchists resulted in the injury of two police officers, albeit lightly.

Extensive clashes with police forces took place in the district of Exarchia, Athens, overnight when groups of anti-establishment activists threw molotov bombs and rocks against police units and lit garbage bins on fire.

Two houses in the Roma community of Avliza in Menidi, northwestern Attica, suffered damages on Sunday evening from fires that, police suspect, were caused by Molotov cocktails.

SYRIZA's Thessaloniki office on Saturday issued a statement, condemning a firebomb attack in the early hours of the morning that caused damage but no injuries.

I came to Greece on leave from the International Monetary Fund in May 1991 to work for the Constantinos Mitsotakis government, which I believed could pull Greece out of the crisis. From my position as the prime minister's chief economic adviser, I tried to contribute to this effort with the experience that I had gained in stabilization programs in my 11 years at the Fund.

Two 17-year-olds and one 18-year-old appeared before a prosecutor on Saturday after being arrested earlier in the day for their role in a series of attacks against riot police in the central district of Exarchia.

Extremists that infiltrated the anti-government rally in Athens threw petrol-bombs (molotov cocktails incendiary bombs) to the police forces, bringing chaos for a quite a few minutes.

The extremists also attacked the van of a TV channel causing serious damages to it.

The anti-riot police responded with the use of tear gas in order to disperse them.

The 2016-17 final of the Greek FA Cup, which was supposed to be a celebration of football, was unfortunately marred by widespread clashes between police forces and hooligans on both teams in the city of Volos, resembling more a war zone than an athletic meeting. Police reported 70 injuries, but surprisingly made no arrests.

The Turkish consulate in Greece's Thessaloniki was attacked by a small group with Molotov cocktails early on April 23, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The group with their faces covered threw two Molotov cocktails at police officers at the consulate at 5:30 a.m., but only one of them caught fire.

There were no injuries or material damage in the attack, the agency said.