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Chants included "Merkel out of Greece"...
The "together to kick out the Nazis" chant accompanied the burning of Nazi and German flags elsewhere in the demo:
Otherwise the police response was par for the course of leading Greece to a Lukashenko-style regime. Mass indiscriminate preventive arrests early on, large parts of the city were unreachable, six metro stations were shut down, and the police after a certain hour continued it's traditional gratuitous use of tear-gas and violence. But the protests were large enough
Naked people participated too: The police also found a new use for "arrested" protesters - human shields (rocks are being thrown at police as the picture is taken):
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
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