Conflit des ordures : émeute à Keratea – 6 janvier 2011

Greek police and protesters clash

itn.co.uk

Thu Jan 6 2011

Fierce clashes have broken out between Greek residents and police in Keratea outside Athens in a dispute over a local landfill site.

Amateur video showed more than 100 residents throwing stones and Molotov cocktails on a highway running through the area, with police using tear gas in response.

Residents shouted « Police, pigs, murderers » as they circled one of the police stations. Police vehicles were overturned and burnt with two police stations attacked and six police cars damaged.

Residents opposed to a new garbage dump have been battling with police who have been guarding the entrance to the landfill site for several weeks. The highway to the site has been blocked with a triple-layered police cordon in an attempt to stop residents from approaching it. Construction on the dump has been temporarily stopped. Read more…