Riot police

Gen. Juan Mario Paulsen Sandi, left, and Anibal Aguilar Gomez, arrested for his alleged involvement in what President Luis Arce called a coup attempt, is presented to the press in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, June 27, 2024.

Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police in Athens Tuesday, when some among the 1,000-odd crowd attempted to scale the gates of the Egyptian embassy, at the capital's Syntagma Square.

Riot police used batons, tear gas and flashbang grenades to push back the protesters and the formed a line in front of the embassy.

Violent clashes erupted at the Agricultural University of Athens in the Votanikos district in the first hours of Sunday, resulting in the torching of two buses and a car.

According to state-run broadcaster ERT, around 1:00 a.m., 40 individuals attending a concert at the university took to Athens Avenue, setting fires and hurling stones at passing vehicles.

Scuffles broke out in Thessaloniki on Thursday, after the completion of a student rally against the establishment of private universities in the country.

Riot police forces entered the Rectorate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which had been under occupation for a few hours on Thursday.

Riot police officers (MAT) protested on Thursday by initially refusing to take their positions outside the Panathenaic Stadium for the Panathinaikos soccer match against the Israeli soccer team Maccabi Haifa. Updated information, however, indicates that they will be present outside the stadium during the match.

Hundreds of police officers and special guards held a protest rally on Monday at the Sub-Directorate for Riot Police in Goudi, Athens, after the severe injury of their 31-year-old colleague last Thursday, with a request to not be responsible for guarding sports fields.

Angry protesters took to the streets in Paris and other cities for a second day on Friday, trying to pressure lawmakers to bring down French President Emmanuel Macron's government and doom the unpopular retirement age increase he's trying to impose without a vote in the National Assembly.

Clashes broke out in Athens Thursday after a general strike in Greece that was called in response to a rail disaster last month.

Riot police officers in Thessaloniki, Greece. Photo: EPA-EFE/DIMITRIS TOSIDIS

According to the Greek media outlet Kathimerini, the seven persons, two lieutenant generals and five major generals, served in critical positions such as the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit and the Attica Security department, the Internal Affairs Service and the Police Intelligence Division.