(5 Mar 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++NIGHT SHOTS++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Athens, Greece – 5 March 2025
1. Various of clashes between riot police officers and protesters in central Athens, riot police firing tear gas and stun grenades, protestors throwing objects
2. Track right of protesters walking with both hands up signaling to police not to attack them
3. Mid of women with faces covered, trying to avoid effects of tear gas
4. Mid of riot police officers, stun grenades sound behind
5. Various of medical personnel with motorbikes attending to protesters that fainted due to tear gas
6. Mid of riot police officers firing tear gas to disperse protesters
7. Mid of masked youth trying to avoid the effects of tear gas
8. Riot police officers apprehending youths
9. Various of protesters chanting slogans sat on road in front of the parliament in central Athens’ Syntagma Square, one holding placard reading (Greek) "You can not beat the truth"
++EARLIER SHOTS OF PROTEST++
10. Close of placard reading (Greek) "We will not forget" during protest
11. Wide of people holding placards, banners during protest
12. Mid of people holding banner with picture of Athina Katsara Zisi, left, victim of rail disaster, and reading (Greek) "I don’t have oxygen", center, and "The souls of the train", right, with pictures of other victims
13. Mid of protesters, one holding placard reading (Greek) "Killers"
14 . SOUNDBITE (Greek) Angeliki (last name not given), protester:
"I came here from he first moment for these children and for these mothers, (I wish) no other mother should cry. Greece is eating its children and they shall not eat (kill) other children."
15. Various of protesters releasing lanterns in memory of victims of rail disaster during protest
STORYLINE:
Protesters clashed with riot police outside Greece’s parliament late Wednesday, in renewed nationwide protests calling for politicians to be held accountable for a 2023 rail disaster that claimed 57 lives.
Scores of youths set fire to trash bins in Syntagma Square in central Athens, and police in riot gear responded with tear gas and baton charges. There were no immediate reports of injuries or arrests.
The fierce clashes erupted hours after opposition parties challenged Greece’s center-right government with a no-confidence motion in parliament.
Days earlier, a general strike and much larger protests, some violent, marked the second anniversary of the Feb. 28, 2023, tragedy.
Many of the victims of the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train at Tempe in northern Greece were university students returning from a long weekend holiday. Dozens of people were injured in the crash.
Victims’ relatives called for the mass mobilization in recent weeks, saying politicians should be held accountable for failures that led to the collision. So far, only rail officials have been charged.
The censure motion — led by the main opposition Socialist party and backed by three smaller left-wing parties — is unlikely to threaten the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, which holds 156 seats in the 300-member parliament.
A vote is expected late Friday.
AP video by Lefteris Pitarakis
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