Greece Riots 2011: Protests Turn Violent, Police And Protesters Clash In Athens (PHOTOS)

Police and protesters clashed in Athens Tuesday, as police hurled tear gas into crowds of hooded youths protesting the austerity measures that lenders have demanded to avoid national bankruptcy.

Labor unions have been on a 48 hour strike crippling the country, and the protests have resulted in the deployment of 5,000 police officers in Athens, according to Reuters. Much of the violence and many of the demonstrations have taken place in Syntagma Square outside the Greek parliament.

Though much of the crowd, which was estimated to be as large as 20,000 people, thinned out after tear gas was thrown, harder protesters stayed and forced police forces to remain in the area.

You can read more or see video of the riots here.

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A fire bomb explodes as riot police officers run to avoid the fire during a demo in Athens on Tuesday June 28, 2011. Greece's beleaguered government is bracing for a 48-hour general strike as lawmakers debate a new round of austerity reforms designed to win the country additional rescue loans needed avoid bankrupt.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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A fire bomb explodes as riot police officers run to avoid the fire during a demo in Athens on Tuesday June 28, 2011. Greece's beleaguered government is bracing for a 48-hour general strike as lawmakers debate a new round of austerity reforms designed to win the country additional rescue loans needed avoid bankrupt.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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[ezat77]

12:19 PM on 07/04/2011

The people united will never be defeated. This goes for all the middle eastern countries who are fighting corruption and Greece who refuses to listen to the people and make the countries decisions without consulting its citzens.The days of political corruption are over.

[Ramon Noches]

11:00 AM on 07/01/2011

II need to be very clear about this as I gaze at today's headliners. Riots in Egypt, roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syrian atrocities, as people starve in Sub-Sahara Africa and on it goes. My extensive reading about global warming indicates the above headliners might be newsworthy, to be blatant in a relative sense, they are news worthless. In coming decades, unless we change our use of energy, reduce population growth, and continue to destroy good farmland, and pollute our warming oceans, the last headline may well read, "Earth's population is now estimated down to 2,301, today's low is 120 and no rain expected this year." Population Bombs are just as dangerous as H-Bombs, but far more stealthy.

[Bobbi Collins]

09:48 PM on 06/30/2011

Democracy is in dangerous territory.

[teabagmetos]

12:11 PM on 06/30/2011

We the Greek Cops finally realize that they are on the wrong side of this deal, it will be over in less than a day when they take the castle.

[teabagmetos]

12:09 PM on 06/30/2011

When Protestors are in Tunisia Egypt and Libya, they are called Patriots, In the UK they are called anarchists, in Wisconsin Socialists, In Greece a rioting mob. Go figure !! Where is our No Fly Zone to remove the Greek parliment. Oh thats right our bankers were in on the theft.

http://coveringdelta.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/the-sources-of-financial-conduct/

[sidecarman]

10:21 AM on 06/30/2011

coming soon to the US in cities everywhere.

get ready.

[Tain Perignon]

05:03 AM on 06/30/2011

GO GREECE!!!

[toliva87]

04:03 PM on 06/29/2011

kinda funny that they say protesters throw rocks TO riot police.... they are throwing them AT them i believe

[Bill Perdue]

01:54 PM on 06/29/2011

Where is riot dog?

[Kate Unver]

01:37 PM on 06/29/2011

Typo: extra "A" in intro to photo 6 just as FYI!

[wowisdabomb]

01:29 PM on 06/29/2011

Is it a riot or a REVOLUTION?

[Bill Perdue]

01:54 PM on 06/29/2011

It will soon be a revolution.

[Rizenkroft]

05:40 AM on 06/29/2011

That really is amazing, so scary.
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[Taxim]

03:16 AM on 06/29/2011

Wher Greece entered the Euro zone they were able to borrow without regard to their economic abilities or tax revenue. The concern now is not for Greece, who will never be able to grow an economy capable of supporting their Euro based services or debt, but with the financial institutions who hold some $350B in Greek paper. All the austarity measures in the world won't change this until Greece leaves the Euro zone, at which point they have nothing but their own economy to depend upon. THAT would result is the type of 'austarity' most associated with the underdeveloped countries.

[teabagmetos]

11:39 AM on 06/30/2011

It didn't hapen like that : Wall street the ECB's and IMF are to blame for Greece's woes:

http://coveringdelta.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/the-sources-of-financial-conduct/

[Taxim]

11:45 AM on 06/30/2011

You have your cart before your horse.

[patman77]

02:28 AM on 06/29/2011

in Greece they lost all the pension $$ for teachers, cops,firemen,and other gov employees when they invested it into the wall st. derivative market and they were robbed by the same banks who robbed and looted our city,state,county and fed pension funds by lieing about the theses toxic born to fail products. now they try to blame it on the unions for collecting their measly dues I guess all our mega fatrat cats will split to dubai with the gold and be protected by the army that was paid up front by bandar b. blackwater.

[Carolab]

01:55 AM on 06/29/2011

GO GREECE!!!

[idahovandal920]

12:15 PM on 06/29/2011

Go Greek people!