Clashes in Athens Between Police and Protesters
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2011-09-26
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Clashes between police and thousands of angry anti-austerity protesters continued in central Athens on Sunday night in the first such unrest after a summer lull.
Tear gas was used as riot police blocked the protesters from accessing the Greek Parliament front where they planned to stage a demonstration against a recently announced property tax.
The tax is due to be approved in Parliament on Tuesday as a part of the latest austerity package designed to ensure Greece gets an 8 billion euro rescue loan vital to pay state salaries and bills in October.
The rally of more than 2,000 protesters holding banners reading "We don't pay" took place in Athens, while the country's finance minister was in Washington. He was scheduled to meet European Union and International Monetary Fund officials in the U.S. capital to discuss the debt crisis.
[Unknown Protester]:
"The dictatorship was not over in 1973. We want our freedom."
More than 100 people were injured in clashes with police outside parliament on June 29 and 30, as lawmakers voted on the country's so-called mid-term fiscal plan.
Greece announced a new wave of austerity measures on Wednesday to secure a new injection of aid and save the country from bankruptcy.
This after EU and IMF inspectors made it clear they were losing patience with the government's failure to meet the targets.
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Clashes between police and thousands of angry anti-austerity protesters continued in central Athens on Sunday night in the first such unrest after a summer lull.
Tear gas was used as riot police blocked the protesters from accessing the Greek Parliament front where they planned to stage a demonstration against a recently announced property tax.
The tax is due to be approved in Parliament on Tuesday as a part of the latest austerity package designed to ensure Greece gets an 8 billion euro rescue loan vital to pay state salaries and bills in October.
The rally of more than 2,000 protesters holding banners reading "We don't pay" took place in Athens, while the country's finance minister was in Washington. He was scheduled to meet European Union and International Monetary Fund officials in the U.S. capital to discuss the debt crisis.
[Unknown Protester]:
"The dictatorship was not over in 1973. We want our freedom."
More than 100 people were injured in clashes with police outside parliament on June 29 and 30, as lawmakers voted on the country's so-called mid-term fiscal plan.
Greece announced a new wave of austerity measures on Wednesday to secure a new injection of aid and save the country from bankruptcy.
This after EU and IMF inspectors made it clear they were losing patience with the government's failure to meet the targets.
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