Violent clashes pitted police against a group of demonstrators on the sidelines of angry rallies in Athens on Thursday more than two weeks after the train disaster that killed 57 people and sparked outrage in Greece, AFP reported.
Protesters threw Molotov cocktails and police responded with tear gas and stun grenades not far from Parliament in the center of the capital, according to AFP journalists.
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Dumpsters were also set on fire on an avenue near the university, releasing heavy black smoke, shop windows were smashed.
25,000 protesters in Athens
Tear gas was fired into the area around the university by riot police, according to the same source.
Previously more than 40,000 people, including some 25,000 in Athens, had shown their anger more than two weeks after the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight convoy, an accident attributed to human error but which exposed the serious dysfunctions in the railways.
Violence had already punctuated rallies, notably on Wednesday March 8, on the sidelines of a demonstration of some 40,000 people in Athens.
