Clashes took place at noon on Thursday (23/01) at the E65 junction in Karditsa, during the farmers‘ mobilizations. During the clashes, anti-riot police used chemical agents to prevent them from blocking the road.

The use of chemicals by the anti-riot police infuriated the head officer who was on the spot, resulting in tension between him and his men.

Specifically, the officer was telling them to stop using chemicals and the MAT men were shouting that they were not backing down.

Clashes on E-65

Police officers prevented farmers from entering the E65, leading to tension.

Hundreds of farmers and ranchers of Karditsa prefecture and the region of Farsala were at the junction of the E65 in Karditsa, flooding the side road with their tractors, participating in the mobilization decided at the Pan-Thessaly meeting of agricultural federations and associations held last week in Palamas.

The first tractors arrived shortly after 12.30pm and for some time tractors from various communities, in the squares of which they had been on the road since January 12 following a decision of a meeting of the EOASK with agricultural associations, sent the first message to the government to bend over the problems and demands of the rural world and provide solutions.