Several thousands of people came to protest today against police brutality and to commemorate the death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15 year old boy who was gunned down by a policeman in Exarcheia, Athens. Police were very provocative; they were very close to protesters and extensively used tear gas without care for the well-being of peaceful protesters. There were some clashes with riot police as anarchists were throwing rocks at them and when there were no photographers or cameras shooting police threw these rocks back.
Also Anarchists took over the Athens University, where a member of the university was hurt.
As the protesters were at Syntagma square police bikes rode into the crown and a woman was hurt.
A small description of each image:
1: Riot police entered the university campus. This is illegal in Greece. Protesters are throwing rocks to them.
2: Clashes outside the university campus
3: Anarchist and riot policeman holding rocks to throw to each other
4: A hurt member of university of Athens coming out of the building. I don't know how hurt he was and I didn't understood if he was hurt physically or he had a heart attack.
5: A woman is injured by police bikes.
The rest are photos of protesters and banners. Some of them are crying from tear gas. The last two are photos of the university building which was taken over by protesters. The Greek flag was replaced by an anarchy one.
out of curiosity, is the guy
out of curiosity, is the guy holding the anarchist flag casually in front of the riot police (photo 12) supposedly a protester?
if anyone happens to see that
if anyone happens to see that photo of the dean somewhere online in Greece or anywhere, please drop me an email with the link, so we can take appropriate action. I am appalled by the lack of professionalism encountered so far on behalf of some Greek outlets. We take these things very seriously at Demotix and we intend to protect the creative work of our contributors in every particular case. And Karolina, thank you for pointing out the two cases so far.
Hi. Its not only that they
Hi. Its not only that they didn't put the credits. They didn't ask for permission me or DEMOTIX to use it. They found the photo on the internet, removed the DEMOTIX watermark and printed it. I uploaded the photo only in DEMOTIX.
endiaferon Kalimera, let me
endiaferon Kalimera, let me know what's happening with Kathimerini cause I am often working with them, and they never put the credits (in K magazine actually), i had that problem 2 weeks ago, don't let it go...
Just be sure you didnt posted or gived the picture with University rector somewhere else
I've seen it quiet often around those days!
Nikola Kathimerini uploads a
Nikola Kathimerini uploads a printed version of the paper in pdf format. You can see my photo on page 25 of http://wwk.kathimerini.gr/kath/edition/2009/08-12-2009.pdf but i can also scan it if you want.
endiaferon, I emailed you
endiaferon, I emailed you just now, can you please get in touch with me? thanks
can someone please scan that
can someone please scan that or take a photo of it (Orhan maybe) and email it to nico@demotix.com and cc ossie@demotix.com
thank you
Yes indeed, thanks for
Yes indeed, thanks for noticing Orhan. I just bought it. They removed the "DEMOTIX IMAGES" watermark and printed it.
The first photo there, with
The first photo there, with the dean, features in the backpage of todays' Kathimerini newspaper. Without any credits though.
I didn't saw any injury on
I didn't saw any injury on his head at all