EL.AS made 14 arrests and 3 detentions during episodes in the center of Athens. According to the relevant police report, 5 police officers were injured and the force’s public inventory was also damaged.

“Today, Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 11:00 a.m., in connection with the announced 24-hour general strike in connection with the Tempi railway accident and at the call of various federations, associations, associations, organizations and associations, meetings were held . took place with the participation of approx. 30,000 people in various places in the center of Athens, namely in the squares of Syntagma, Klafmonos and Kolokotroni, Propylaea and Hautea.

Then, approx. 22000 collected people along the axis of the Propylaea lined up on the roadway of the University and marched, moving along the streets of the University, Syntagma Square, Amalia Avenue, Syngrou Avenue, with the final destination of the company’s offices on Petmeza Street in Kallithea.

The bulk of those gathered remained on Syngrou Avenue, from where they gradually left after the speeches.

ABOUT 5000 of the people gathered along Stadiou Street, they began to march at 12:30 in the direction of Syntagma, at the same time, the crowd on Syntagma Square moved in parts towards Panepistimiou Street towards Omonia.

At 13:30, while the march, starting from the stadium, smoothly moved along the route of the stadium, Syntagma Square, Otonos, Vas. wood, stones, pieces of marble and other objects they intervened behind those on the march, below Syntagma Square.

During the intervention of the police forces in a certain place, in order to separate them from the main mass of the march, persons operating in subgroups set in motion, inside the square and on the rise of Vasileos Gheorghiu A’violent attacks with Molotov cocktails, stones, marbles and other objects thrown at police officers.

The police forces, using the necessary means, repelled them, and the faces dispersed in different directions, carrying out successive attacks on police officers on Panepistimi Street and the adjacent streets where they ended up. When passing to the above points, they caused damage to public and private infrastructure, which is kept.