Tensions arose earlier in Thessaloniki, when members of the KKE, led by Thessaloniki MP Yannis Deli, hung a protest banner on the White Tower in connection with the accident in Tempe.

Strong police forces, using chemicals, drove the protesters away, and after a while a banner was taken down, which read: “Now the anger is defeated, this crime will not be forgotten.”

According to Mr Deli, it was “a symbolic act of condemnation of the prescribed crime that took place in Tempi”.

Shortly before 13:30, a protest march takes place.

KKE announcement of the incident

“We condemn the unprovoked police attack on members and leaders of the KKE, who this morning were at the White Tower in Thessaloniki and began to symbolically hang a banner with the slogan “Now let the anger be subverted, this crime will not be forgotten. As a result, two of them were injured. The position of the police is characterized by the fact that they locked some of the participants in this symbolic mobilization inside the White Tower and did not allow anyone to leave the territory, not even the KKE MP of Thessaloniki, Yannis Delhi,” the KKE said in a statement.

“As much as the North North government wants to impose an atmosphere of silence and police control over the multifaceted criminal events in Tempe, it will not succeed. The people and the youth, we are all outraged and outraged by this policy, sacrificing our lives on the altar of profit and an anti-people state. This is also evidenced by mass rallies all these days all over the country.

We continue. Now is not the time for silence, this is the time for voice and struggle!” The KKE emphasizes at the end of its statement.