Riot police deployed tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a smaller group of protesters throwing Molotov cocktails and stones. Protesters have alleged that the government was involved in a cover-up of the deadly crash.PoliticsGreece
Greece: Mass protests on anniversary of Tempi train crash
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Riot police deployed tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a smaller group of protesters throwing Molotov cocktails and stones. Protesters have alleged that the government was involved in a cover-up of the deadly crash.
Protester wearing gas mask in Athens, Greece
Riot police clashed with protesters in Athens, using tear gas and stun grenadesImage: Petros Giannakouris/AP/picture alliance
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Tens of thousands of people gathered in Athens in a demonstration to mark the second anniversary of a rail accident that killed 57.
Greek riot police deployed tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a smaller group of protesters throwing Molotov cocktails and stones.
Protesters have alleged that the government was involved in a cover-up of evidence, slowing down investigations into the crash.
Protesters in Athens hold up signs with numbers and blood to represent those killed in Tempi rail disaster on Feb 28, 2025.Protesters in Athens hold up signs with numbers and blood to represent those killed in Tempi rail disaster on Feb 28, 2025.
Hundreds of thousands of people demanded justice for the 57 people killed when a passenger train collided with a freight train in 2023Image: Aristidis Vafeiadakis/ZUMAPRESS.com/picture alliance
What do we know about the protest?
Over 170,000 people attended the protest in Athens, and some 325,000 people in total took to the streets nationwide, according to police.
A total of 5,000 police officers have been deployed in the capital.
Police said that between 500 and 700 people were involved in riots. Police arrested over 80 individuals.
Riots also broke out in Greece’s second-most populous city of Thessaloniki.
Greece’s ambulance service said some nine people were taken to hospital, including a photographer that had been hit in the head by a stun grenade