Greece: Police Responds with Tear Gas and Water Cannons to Disperse Protesters
Greek police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the protesters who went to the streets of Athens to protest against the austerity measures.
Thousands of people went to the streets on Thursday to express dissatisfaction with the austerity measures that the EU and the IMF imposed on Greece in the first national strike of public and private sector after the leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras took the office in January.
The twenty-four-hour strike shut down the public services, marine and rail traffic and led to the cancellation of dozens of flights of the domestic lines.
The journalists also participate in the strike, and the museums and archaeological tourist attractions are closed. While the international creditors were meeting in the center of Athens to discuss the latest aid package, thousands of people marched nearby in protest against the rising taxes and the reduction of pensions, as requested by Greece in exchange for a new tranche.
Five years after the contract of the first aid package, the saving stopped the economic activity in Greece and a quarter of the population was left jobless.