GREEK RIOT POLICE CLASH WITH PROTESTING STUDENTS IN ATHENS

GREEK RIOT POLICE FIRED TEAR GAS INTO A CROWD OF
PROTESTING STUDENTS ON THURSDAY, AFTER A GROUP OF HOODED YOUTHS BEGAN
VANDALIZING SHOPS AND CARS IN CENTRAL ATHENS, REUTERS REPORTED.
REPORTS SAID A GROUP OF HOODED ANARCHISTS INFILTRATED THE
DEMONSTRATION INVOLVING MORE THAN 5,000 STUDENTS AND SMASHED
STOREFRONTS, BANKS AND PARKED CARS. MANY ALSO THREW PETROL BOMBS AT
POLICE.
POLICE RETALIATED WITH TEAR GAS AND BATON CHARGES. OFFICIALS SAID
40 PROTESTERS WERE DETAINED AND ABOUT 15 PEOPLE INJURED IN THE
CLASHES WHICH LASTED SEVERAL HOURS.
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS HAVE REFRAINED FROM TAKING EXAMS AND HAVE
STAGED SIT-INS AT MORE THAN 100 UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO
PROTEST GOVERNMENT EDUCATION REFORMS, WHICH INCLUDE THE CREATION OF
PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES.