About 20 thousand people came out to anti-American demonstration in Athens, told the magazine "Proto theme" referring to law enforcement.
The event was held at the 46th anniversary of the uprising of students at the Polytechnic against the junta of " black colonels ". The Greeks blame the United States in support of the junta in 1967-1974, and is by tradition the anniversary of the uprising students a day come to the U.S. Embassy with the blood-stained Greek flag, and in the evening held a mass demonstration. In the opinion of many politicians, without the support of the US junta would not have lasted a day.
"analysis of the police, About eight thousand protesters were in the column of the Communist trade Union PAME, to the thousands of protesters in the column (the former ruling party) SYRIZA and eleven thousand people in the other columns," writes the magazine.
The demonstrators chanted anti-American slogans.
"The Americans forcibly deprived of life of lambrakis and Beloyannis, they are murderers of the peoples" - screaming, for example, the column SYRIZA, whose policy led to the emergence of new us bases in Greece.
Greek public and the politician Grigoris Lambrakis was forcibly deprived of his life in 1963, right-wing, associated with the authorities. An anti-fascist, member of the Central Committee of the Communist party of Greece, Nikos Beloyannis on charges of treason and espionage in favor of the Union was sentenced to death in 1952 and executed.
During the March, the protesters threw bottles, sounded insulting.
SYRIZA leader, former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras led the convoy in the beginning of March, but the US Embassy is not reached, leaving the demonstration half way through, near the British Embassy.
because of this, the ruling party "New power of the people" had spoken with a sarcastic comment.
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