Dramatic footage has emerged overnight of anarchists and far-leftists throwing Molotov cocktails, fireworks and projectiles at riot police in Greece's second-largest city.
In video filmed in Thessaloniki in northern Greece late on Friday (November 17), dark-clad hooded youths launch Molotov cocktails, which explode around the feet of the police, as well as fireworks and other objects in their direction.
Thousands of protesters in Thessaloniki and Athens marched on Friday to mark the anniversary of the 1973 crackdown on a student uprising against the military dictatorship that then ruled Greece.
The march is often used as a means of expressing displeasure with government policies.
Writes the filmer: "Despite extreme weather and heavy rain, hundreds of anarchists and far-left members unleash their own rain of fire against riot police using countless Molotov bombs, fireworks, st