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Added on the 08/03/2023 16:32:31 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Protests in Athens against a deal brokered with neighbouring Macedonia to end a 27-year name dispute turn violent as protesters clash with police. IMAGES of violent clashes
Tens of thousands demonstrate in central Athens as public anger mounts at Greece's worst rail tragedy. Fifty-seven people were killed, and 14 others remain in hospital after a freight train crashed head-on with a passenger train, carrying mostly students, on February 28. IMAGES
Clashes break out between police and protesters in central Athens, as police fire tear gas at firebomb-throwing protesters outside parliament during a large demonstration to protest last week's deadly train crash. Dozens of masked, black-clad protesters hurl Molotov cocktails and stones at riot police as more than 40,000 take to the streets of the capital. IMAGES
Protesters gather outside Athens Academy ahead of a march to Syntagma Square, after a train disaster that killed 57 people and sparked anger across the country. A police spokesperson in Athens said around 23,000 people are on the streets of central Athens, as the dilapidated rail network and technical failures are blamed for the head-on collision between two trains. IMAGES
Riot police and a small group of protesters clash in central Athens on the sidelines of a vigil for the 57 people killed in the country's worst rail disaster. IMAGES