Thousands of students took to the streets of Thessaloniki to protest a law passed by the Ministry of Education which would create a university police force for the first time since the fall of Greece's military junta. Near the end of the demonstrations, clashes between demonstrators and police occurred, with Molotov cocktails and tear gas being thrown.
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Hundreds of protesters in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park returned to the streets for a 4th day of demonstrations demanding justice for 20-year-old Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man murdered by a police officer. Police officers rained munitions and pepper-spray on the crowd, and Minnesota state troopers swept the area and arrested 24 people.
Hundreds of protesters in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center took to the streets for a third consecutive day, demanding the prosecution of the officer who murdered 20-year-old Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man. Police launched an exorbitant amount of munitions, firing tear gas and rubber bullets as well as crowd control grenades at the crowd.
Hundreds of protesters in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center took to the streets for a 2nd day to demand justice for 20-year-old Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man murdered by officer Katie Potter on the 11th of April. Police and the national guard attacked the demonstration, shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd.
Thousands of students in Thessaloniki returned to the streets for a demonstration decrying the Ministry of Education, which passed a bill allowing the creation of a university police force in Greece which would exist for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974.
Around 1000 students in Athens marched in opposition to a law passed by the Greek Ministry of Education, which would create an independent police force within universities after a decades-long ban on such a law following a massacre of student protesters by the military junta in 1973.
Around 3000 students in Thessaloniki marched in opposition to a law passed by the Ministry of Education, which would allow police to enter universities and would allow for the creation of a university police force that would exist for the first time since the fall of the military junta in Greece in 1974.
Hundreds of protesters in Thessaloniki marched in opposition to state brutality and police repression during the COVID-19 pandemic, criticizing the state measures of police crackdowns instead of giving better funding to the healthcare system in Greece.
Hundreds of Cypriots took to the streets of Nicosia in opposition to corruption plaguing the government of the Greek part of Cyprus, which many say plagues the issue of protecting the environment and reuniting under a federal government with the northern Turkish government.
Around 1000 protesters in Bristol returned to the streets in opposition to a law that would expand police powers, restrict the right to protest, and also criminalize a nomadic lifestyle. Police brutally attacked the protesters, injuring many and deploying horses and dogs against the peaceful demonstrators.
Around 1500 protesters returned to the streets of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district of Berlin, demonstrating against the eviction of the Meuterei cooperative, one of the last affordable bars in the city and a place of leftist organization in the FH-KB area of Berlin.
Around 2000 protesters in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district of Berlin marched against the eviction of the Meuteri cooperative, one of the last affordable bars in the city and a place of leftist organization in the FH-KB area of Berlin. Police attacked the demonstration near the end of the march's course, making several brutal arrests and attacking random people.
Thousands of protesters in Bristol clashed with police during a Kill the Bill demonstration in opposition to the restriction of the right to protest and the increase of police powers in Great Britain. Several police vehicles were torched, the police station's windows were smashed, and fireworks were shot at the scene.
Hundreds of protesters in Paris marched in opposition to Islamophobia and a Separatism Law being proposed in the French government, which would greatly increase the powers of the state to carry out surveillance on political and religious minorities under the guise of preventing radicalization.
Around 1500 protesters in Stuttgart marched in solidarity with anarchist and communist political prisoners in Germany, highlighting the case of a student called Lina in her 20s who has been detained for months by the German government for her activist background.