Dozens of protesters gathered in the Athens neighborhood of Petralona in remembrance of Shehzad Luqman, a migrant worker from Pakistan who was stabbed to death in 2013 on his way to work by 2 supporters of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. Despite police harassing the protesters, the march went forward and no arrests were made.
Hundreds of students gathered at the Statue of Venizelos in Thessaloniki in opposition to a new bill proposed by the Greek government, which would for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974 reintroduce police on university campuses. Demonstrators then marched to the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace, meeting with teachers’ unions, pressuring the regional administration not to support the new measures.
Around 300 protesters gathered at the Justice Center in Portland around nightfall on the anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s murder, demanding justice for the black woman killed in Louisville by police who opened fire into her home using a no-knock warrant.
Anarchists in Berlin protested inside the offices of broadcaster Deutsche Welle, demanding that the German media group cover the ongoing Koufontinas hunger strike which has been mostly ignored by media groups outside of Greece.
Sporadic protests occurred across Tunisia, centered around Sbeitla, Sidi Bouzid, and Tunis. Demonstrators in a town near Sidi Bouzid placed barricades and protested to demand a betterment of living conditions, clashing with police. In Sbeitla, near the city of Kasserine, youth clashed with police who deployed tear gas in the streets, dispersing the crowd. Family members of arrested protesters & activists demonstrated in Tunis, condemning the degeneration of the Arab Spring revolution and calling for the downfall of the regime.
