MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to The Guardian newspaper, riot police used tear gas to quell the protesters in the central Syntagma Square. Some protesters were throwing petrol bombs.
The rally, which had been peaceful, is now said to be disbanding due to heavy policy presence.
Earlier in the day, thousands of workers from both the country’s public and private sectors took to the streets of major cities in opposition to austerity.
The ruling Syriza party's labor policy department urged Greeks to take part in a general strike against the government’s austerity policies.
Under the agreement with Greece’s international creditors, that was signed by Syriza leader and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, the country committed to introducing more austerity measures and to coordinating its budgetary decisions with its lenders in exchange for the country's third bailout program, worth 86-billion-euros ($94.8 billion).
