Pavlos Aslanidis, president of the Tempi Victims’ Association, addressed those assembled from the podium: ‘We demand justice. Let the full truth of this crime come to light. The culpable state is killing even the hope of vindication. We demand the right to live and to work in safety and with dignity.’
Protesters chanted: ‘We are the voice of all the dead; the crime at Tempi will not be covered up.’ Loud booing broke out when the name of the Minister of Justice, Giorgos Floridis, was mentioned.
Sixty-seven people were detained across the country, with two arrests recorded in Athens. Reports also emerged of an unprovoked assault by riot police and ACTION squads on members of the political organisations Communist Liberation and the Youth of Communist Liberation (NKA) on Zalongou Street.
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