Peaceful protests in central Athens have been eclipsed by the eruption of full-scale clashes between youths and riot police, as demonstrations and strikes were held across Greece to mark the second anniversary of a fatal train crash. In 2023, 57 people, almost all students, were killed and dozens more injured when an intercity passenger train collided head-on with a cargo locomotive in the worst rail accident in the country's history. Thousands of people had crammed into Syntagma Square in the Greek capital for a demonstration, as hundreds of thousands of people were protesting across the country, before the violence erupted
Youths throw rocks at police in Athens as violence erupts amid train crash rally
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