Greek riot police clash with tax protesters

reuters.com

 Thu Nov 24, 2011

Nov 24 (Reuters) – Riot police clashed with workers at Greece’s biggest power producer PPC on Thursday as they staged a protest against a new property tax imposed as part of austerity measures to avert the country’s bankruptcy.

Some 80 police scuffled with members of the company’s labour union GENOP outside the entrance to the building in an Athens suburb. Police detained 15 people, a police spokesman said.

The union is trying to boycott the property tax that PPC has been charged with collecting via Greeks’ electricity bills.

« We will not back down in our struggle. This fight is about the whole of Greek society. It is about not cutting power to the homes of the poor, the unemployed, the pensioners, » Nikos Fotopoulos, head of GENOP, said before being detained. Read more…

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~ par Alain Bertho sur 25 novembre 2011.

Publié dans émeutes, ταραχές, riots