ATHENS - Greek police used tear gas, stun grenades and water cannon in Athens on Tuesday to break up a demonstration to commemorate a 1973 student uprising against the military junta that was banned because of the pandemic.
But this year Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' conservative government banned the public demonstrations as Greece faces mounting coronavirus cases. Alexis Charitsis, spokesman for the main Syriza opposition party, agreed that"police attacked and provoked a peaceful demonstration", calling for"all the arrested people to be freed".
All three rejected a government call for a simple gathering at the monument to the bloody repression of the student movement by the police and army.
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