GREECE – deploys riot police in Athens for
students march NAN-F-2 Riot Athens,
Government said more than 7,000 riot police
were deployed across Athens on Monday to
guard an annual march to commemorate the
1973 student uprising against Greece’s military
dictatorship.
It said all the major streets would
remain closed to traffic throughout the
afternoon as students and trade unions prepare
to take part in the rally.
It said Athens’ Law
School and Athens University of Economics and
Business, have also been fenced off by police
and cordons have been set up around
Parliament and the Finance Ministry.
Hundreds
of people could be seen laying wreaths and
flowers over the past few days at a memorial
marking the event.
Government noted that
putting all the necessary security apparatus in
place had become imperative because the
annual march often turned violent.
It said some
universities were also shut for five days and
banned all sit-ins.
It said just last week,
students determined to break the ban clashed
with riot police outside Athens’ Law School and
two people were injured.
The students uprising
began after hundreds were killed when tanks
rolled onto the Polytechnic School campus.
It
ended in 1974 with the fall of the seven-year
dictatorship.
(dpa/NAN)
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