The climate in Thessaloniki and Western Attica was sour for the second night. Roma in protest against the shooting of 16-year-old Kostas Frangulis by a DIAS police officer.

In Thessaloniki, Molotov cocktails fell on the building of the Economic Police Department. In Attica, according to ELAS, 10 police officers were injured in clashes with gypsies in Aulise Menidiou, while there are reports that a police officer who received shrapnel from a gun is in serious condition.

Tensions in Western Attica – OPKE commander and other policemen injured

An atmosphere of tension prevailed from early Tuesday evening to early Wednesday morning and Western Attica.

The Roma gathered on Tuesday evening on Mornow Street in the Avliza Menidi, lit fires and threw objects at police officers in the area. The police used stun grenades and made two arrests.

According to ELAS, 10 police officers were injured in episodes with Roma on Mornou Street, in the Aulisa Menidiou area. Four of them were struck by various objects thrown at them by gypsies and six from splinters.

In fact, one of the wounded also OPKE commanderwho had shrapnel abrasions on the face. However, all the police officers received minor injuries and were detained. dismiss from the hospital.

In general, they have eight arrests.

At around 22:00, about 200 Roma barricades were erected, stones were thrown at, and rubbish bins were set on fire on Filis Avenue, near the Zefiriou transport stop.

At night, tension reigned in the areas of Aspropyrgos, Agia Varvara, Ano Liosia, Menidi, Zefiri.

Regional Aegaleo was closed until 11 a.m. Wednesday due to the height of the Hellenic Highways due to objects on the road surface.

Episodes in Thessaloniki

Molotov cocktails, barricades, fires and stone fights continued for the second night in the west. Thessaloniki protests by Roma groups over a 16-year-old boy who was seriously injured by police gunfire.

There was a long tension in her building. Economic Police Department Northern Greece, in Menemeni, where from 10 am and intermittently until early morning there were attacks on police officers, sometimes with improvised bombs Molotov and sometimes stones and various other objects.

Barricades were erected on the territory of set fire to garbage cans.

The second burst of tension occurred at midnight. Lagada street, after the pedestrian bridge of Stavropolis. At this point, the protesters blocked the road for two hours in both traffic streams, placing trash fires, while throwing objects at police officers who were called to the scene.

The police forces in both of the above cases responded with chemicals to the attacks they received, while the help of the fire department was needed to put out the burning garbage cans.