(9 Nov 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Athens – 9 November 2022
1. Various of masked protesters hurling stones, flares and Molotov cocktails towards police officers who respond with tear gas
2. Protesters breaking Syntagma square marble floor into pieces to use against police
3. Various of police officers
4. Protesters chanting during march
5. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Dimitra Tasou, teacher and protester:
"We are educators. We demonstrate together with the other workers, the unemployed, the immigrants, the refugees. We are all united together. For class struggle, to say that the oppression and the war that we accept as youth and as workers and as unemployed must stop here."
6. Various of protesters during march
7. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Dimitra Tasou, teacher and protester:
"Our wages must rise now, a price cap must be put in place, VAT (Value Added Tax) abolished, the energy exchange (to cease), they (the government) have to stop stealing our lives, our future and our work. We will not live simply to work, we must live to live and not to survive."
8. Protester smoking during march in central Athens
STORYLINE:
Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Athens on Wednesday as public and some private sector workers walked out in a 24-hour general strike against price hikes.
Brief clashes broke out between small groups of protesters and riot police at the tail-end of marches in the Greek capital.
There, small groups of demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at police, who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
The strike disrupted services around the country, with ferries tied up in port — severing connections to Greece's islands — state-run schools shut, public hospitals running with reduced staff and most public transport grinding to a standstill.
"We will not live simply to work, we must live to live and not survive," protester Dimitra Tasou told The Associated Press from the march in central Athens.
A similar protest was also held in the northern city of Thessaloniki
Europe has faced a series of protests and strikes over the past few months over the soaring cost of living.
AP Video shot by Lefteris Pitarakis
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