×
GreekEnglish

×
  • Politics
  • Diaspora
  • World
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Cooking
Sunday
15
Mar 2026
weather symbol
Athens 12°C
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • World
  • Diaspora
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Mediterranean Cooking
  • Weather
Contact follow Protothema:
Powered by Cloudevo
> Greece

Riots break out at Nea Smyrni police station – Police officer seriously injured

They are protesting against police brutality at the city's square last week

Newsroom March 9 07:45

UPD –

Riots broke out between police and hooded protesters in the area where the police station in Nea Smyrni is located. Hooded men attacked the police station with Molotov cocktails, while they also attacked journalists and photojournalists, while one police officer was injured: according to the first reports, he has been beaten and his condition is bad.
Hooded men threw the policeman off his motorcycle and started beating him mercilessly. The officer was found covered in blood on the ground until his colleagues surrounded him. Until now (7.55 pm) it has not been possible for an ambulance to arrive to pick him up.

The incidents erupted when hooded men and anti-authoritarians marched to the head of the local police station, throwing Molotov cocktails and shouting slogans for Dimitris Koufordinas. The police reacted with chemicals and water from the aquifer – “aura”, in order to remove the riots.

A new protest rally is underway in Nea Smyrni in Athens. Images of incredible crowding are being recorded, on a day when the coronavirus cases reached 3,215.
The march in the main streets of the city started at about 6.30 in the afternoon, while among those gathered are families – residents of Nea Smyrni, members of collectives, and organisations marching to the police station in the area. According to estimates of ELAS, at least 6,000 people are taking part in the rally.
Among those taking part in the rally are organised groups of football fans, many of whom are holding sticks and are wearing hoods. Police officers found a bag with bottles full of flammable material. The prevailing slogans are against the police.




>Related articles

Nationwide education rally on Thursday 6/11 in Athens – Students, university students and parents in the streets

Rallies in progress, the centre of Athens inaccessible – Which roads are closed

London on alert – Authorities on the alert for the rally in support of freedom of expression, 1,000 police on the streets

Ask me anything

Explore related questions

#crowds#rally
> More Greece

Follow en.protothema.gr on Google News and be the first to know all the news

See all the latest News from Greece and the World, the moment they happen, at en.protothema.gr

> Latest Stories

Three arrests of Turks for the shootings in Nea Makri

March 15, 2026

Mojtaba Khamenei was transferred to Moscow for surgery, says the Daily Mail, citing Kuwaiti media

March 15, 2026

Protothema.gr at the ruins of a hospital in Lebanon: 12 dead after the Israeli strike – Tel Aviv says Hezbollah was using it (videos-photos)

March 15, 2026

Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Proto Thema on the crisis in the Middle East: The country in wartime needs political stability

March 15, 2026

Strike in the heart of Tel Aviv, just steps away from the central market and the major hotels – Watch the protothema.gr video

March 15, 2026

Mitsotakis: The fiscal discipline of recent years gives us room to intervene depending on how the crisis develops

March 15, 2026

Middle East crisis: How fuel, food & consumers are affected – The best and worst case scenarios

March 15, 2026

The Revolutionary Guards vow to hunt down and kill Netanyahu

March 15, 2026
All News

> Economy

Middle East crisis: How fuel, food & consumers are affected – The best and worst case scenarios

Which measures the government has already put in place to keep prices in check and limit the burden on households - The psychological factor and the new profile of the Greek consumer

March 15, 2026

The government is activating 4 tax cuts in the coming days: What changes for ENFIA and new income tax returns

March 15, 2026

How hard will markets be hit by the war? The “Black Swans” of March and the resilience of the Greek economy

March 14, 2026

New historic record for the Greek-owned fleet with 4,388 ships, up 3.8%

March 13, 2026

Oil: Brent holds $100 as Iran conflict enters third week

March 13, 2026
Homepage
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY COOKIES POLICY TERM OF USE
Powered by Cloudevo
Copyright © 2026 Πρώτο Θέμα