Massive security at Greek Independence Day parade

Thousands of police cordoned off streets in central Athens Sunday as a military parade to mark Independence Day was held under unprecedented security measures.

Izvor: Tanjug

Sunday, 25.03.2012.

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Thousands of police cordoned off streets in central Athens Sunday as a military parade to mark Independence Day was held under unprecedented security measures. The organizers feared anti-austerity protests. Massive security at Greek Independence Day parade 6,000 police officers have been deployed to the streets of Athens and police presence has been increased in Thessaloniki and other Greek cities. For the first time, the public was banned from a large part of the route, including the area in front of Parliament from where politicians and other officials will watch the march, AP has reported. The ceremony marking the 191st anniversary of Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire started on Sunday with President Karolos Papoulias laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and a military band playing the national anthem, a group of about a dozen people at the bottom of Syntagma Square across a main street from the legislative building chanted "Traitors." They were quickly surrounded by riot police and gradually dispersed, with the parade ending without further incident, AP has reported. War veterans for the first time boycotted this year’s parade, expressing their dissatisfaction with strict austerity measures. Greeks on March 25 mark the country’s uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. (Tanjug) Tanjug

Massive security at Greek Independence Day parade

6,000 police officers have been deployed to the streets of Athens and police presence has been increased in Thessaloniki and other Greek cities.

For the first time, the public was banned from a large part of the route, including the area in front of Parliament from where politicians and other officials will watch the march, AP has reported.

The ceremony marking the 191st anniversary of Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire started on Sunday with President Karolos Papoulias laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and a military band playing the national anthem, a group of about a dozen people at the bottom of Syntagma Square across a main street from the legislative building chanted "Traitors."

They were quickly surrounded by riot police and gradually dispersed, with the parade ending without further incident, AP has reported.

War veterans for the first time boycotted this year’s parade, expressing their dissatisfaction with strict austerity measures.

Greeks on March 25 mark the country’s uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.

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