Earlier police fired teargas at stone-throwing demonstrators as riots broke out in parts of the capital.
Police in Athens have fired teargas to scatter protesters who'd gathered outside the headquarters of the far-right Golden Dawn party, a week after one of its members confessed to killing a left-wing musician Pavlos Fyssas. Mainstream parties had called for a large turnout to demonstrate support for democracy. Our Athens correspondent Mark Lowen was at the demonstration.
We were pushed back by the police upper of the headquarter Golden Dawn who used teargas against the crowds. It hits us at one point quite badly, we have to turn on our gas masks and we were pushed back and then the crowds sort of dispersed to different sites, there were petrol bombs and thrown at the police, couple of things are setting on fire, it's all crackdown, but certainly, the mood here was very much angry against Golden Dawn but also angry against the government because many here believed that the government has too long tolerated and even appeased the neo-Nazis.
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