Seven foreign nationals were among those arrested in the course of a coordinated police operation and the charges include inflicting bodily harm, attempt at arson, damages to property and violations of law on arms and drugs, the Athens News Agency — Macedonian Press Agency reported on Saturday, APA reports quoting Sputnik.
Clashes between activists and police erupted in Athens on Friday after a rally commemorating the 44th anniversary of a 1973 student uprising against the US-backed Greek military junta, local media reported. According to AMNA news agency, after the demonstration, attended by 13,000 people, had reached the US Embassy, anarchists, who did not take part in the rally, began to throw stones and Molotov cocktails at police officers deployed on the demonstration's route. Police, in response, used tear gas, stun grenades and truncheons against the attackers.
​Clashes between police officers and anarchists also took part near the National Technical University of Athens. Nearly 100 people pelted the police with bottles there, after which the officers used tear gas and flash-bang grenades.
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