(Newswire.net — July 18, 2015) — Athens, Greece – Turnover in Greece debt crisis left many Greeks unsatisfied. At the referendum, the Greeks voted they would not accept proposed bailout by EU leaders, which was the main political course of a newly elected Greece Premiere Tsipras.
Almost immediately after the referendum, resignation of the Greece Minister of Finance, Varufakis, suggested something odd was going on. Officially, Varufakis said he quit to make additional room for negotiations since he “wasn’t welcome” to talks with creditors. As soon as new Minister of Finance was appointed, Tsipras announced Greece would accept a new deal that is not significantly different than the rejected one.
The move aggravated many Greeks, which launched mass protests in Greece, clashing with the police on streets of Athens.
14 people were arrested during violent protests in Athens, however, not one of them was from Greece, the Independent cited Greek paper Kathimarini.
While protesters in Athens’ central Syntagma Square threw petrol bombs and stones in protest against the vote on further austerity reforms in parliament, the Police, which responded with teargas and water cannons, arrested 14 people, all of them foreigners. Twelve out of fourteen were arrested in Athens metro for painting graffiti, and for the remaining two the reason was not shared.
Kathimarini reported that four of those arrested came from Germany, two were French, one Australian, one Ukrainian, one Dutch and three Polish. There were issued charges relating to metro station damages.
Additional two people, one Italian and one Albanian, were arrested in front of the parliament for attacks on police officers.
The Independent reported that protests against the Greek government’s full capitulation to the demands of the country’s creditors got violent just before 9:30pm Thursday, as protests started throwing petrol bombs at the Police, who responded with tear gas in effort to bring the riot under control. Police estimated the number of demonstrators at 12,500, the Independent reported.