The marches focused on the war waged by the Israeli army in Gazaexpressing its solidarity with the Palestinian people.
The demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails and burned the American and Israeli flags.
The march extended for several kilometers from representatives of leftist parties and movements, trade unions and student unions along the central streets of the city from the walls of Parliament in Syntagma Square to the American Embassy, which was tightly surrounded along the perimeter by police buses and special forces units.
The newspaper “Naftimburiki” reported that “according to Greek police estimates, the number of participants in the march exceeded 25,000.”
Speaking to the march participants, Dimitris Kotsoumba, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, stressed that “the messages today are against the imperialist war, against the alliance between the United States, the European Union and NATO, and in support of freedom.” Palestine“.
