Greece: “Cops out of our neighborhoods” – Protest in Nea Smyrni after the crescendo of police violence

It all started at noon on Sunday, March 7, 2021 when police officers approached families who had gone out for their Sunday walk in Nea Smyrni Square and started imposing fines, despite the fact that they were wearing masks. When other residents began to protest, the police reacted violently, as if the residents were their enemy, which is probably for most, as dozens of other police motorcyclists rushed to the scene to assist them, like an invading army, who started to attack everything, chasing, hitting and arresting 11 people in and around the grove of Nea Smyrni.

 

The crescendo of police violence in Nea Smyrni provoked the anger and mass reaction of hundreds of residents, as well as the lie of the attack of unknown persons against the police, which was spread by the state RES and republished indiscriminately by the major media, which prompted a little later about 1,000 residents to march, with a central banner under the slogan “Cops out of our neighborhoods”. 

The spontaneous march against police impunity took place amid applause from several balconies in the neighborhood, however, shortly afterwards, MAT forces surrounded the march, which created great tension, as in a march against police violence experienced by an entire neighborhood, they were confronted as new intruders and unwanted. As expected, based on the data of the state repression, especially lately, the course was hit by the MAT with a click – flash and chemicals, literally, like an army invading a neighborhood. 

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