The Golden Dawn, a Greek neo-Nazi organization and former party, was on trial on the 7th of October for several terror attacks against antifascists. Clashes occurred between police and protesters, with police eventually being pushed back from their zone of attack by several hundred anarchists. The largest rally had an attendance of over 50,000 people in front of Parliament.
Thousands of antifascists, anarchists, and allies gathered in Lyon to protest against the Global Security Law for the fourth week, which banned the filming of police officers. Protesters clashed with police early on, who deployed tear gas as the protest splintered into several groups and forced the police to reposition themselves across the city.
Around 400 protesters in Tripoli gathered to demand an increase in living conditions in the Sunni-majority region, the poorest in all of Lebanon with a large number of the population living below the UN poverty line. Escalations began outside of local Hezbollah headquarters, with the military attacking protesters who responded by lighting barricades and throwing rocks.
Around 250 protesters in the Athens district of Piraeus took to the street against state repression and police brutality justified by the COVID pandemic, with law enforcement overfunded as hospitals and the healthcare system struggle to contain a rise in coronavirus cases.
Thousands of Greeks in Athens gathered for a demonstration against police repression, following an incident of police brutality in the name of COVID protocols at Nea Smyrni Square and the reintroduction of police to universities for the first extended period since the fall of the military dictatorship.
