Greece: Large police deployment ahead of annual protest

ATHENS, Greece — More than 5,000 constabulary officers were being deployed successful Athens connected Wednesday up of a rally to people the day of a bloody anti-dictatorship uprising.

The yearly march to the U.S. embassy has often successful erstwhile years been marred by violence. It was owed to spell up contempt restrictions related to the pandemic.

The ample student-led demonstrations successful 1973 astatine the Athens Polytechnic successful the halfway of the superior were held a twelvemonth earlier a subject dictatorship, successful powerfulness since 1967, collapsed. Police opened occurrence connected unarmed demonstrators astatine the clip but the decease toll remains unknown.

In a tweet Wednesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the uprising reinforced the country’s “daily committedness to a unafraid democracy.”