#AceBreakingNews – #Greece July.02: RT correspondent Ilya Petrenko was teargassed by police as he got caught in clashes between security forces and radical left Antarsya coalition supporters during a protest on the capital’s central Syntagma Square.
Clashes between police and protestors erupted during two simultaneous rallies held by radical left Antarsya coalition and the Communist Party in Athens on Thursday.
Both parties took to the streets to call for the Greeks to vote ‘No’ in the referendum on Sunday.
People started running away. There were some scuffles and fighting erupted. But it was quickly dispersed.”
He added that the situation is currently quite “chaotic” and police are on stand-by.
The Eurogroup of the EU finance ministers has announced that the debt talks will be halted until Greece votes either to accept the international lenders’ conditions or not.