Athens – Some updates are via Occupied London

20:23 GMT+2 Circa 3,000 people remain on Syntagma square, they also managed to occupy Amalias avenue in front of the parliament. There are calls for more people and for anti-fascists to join the rally. Circa 5,000 people responded to the call of the indignants and went at Syntagma Square on Sunday evening. Riot police and undercover cops responded with a full scale military operation pushing people out of Amalias Av. in front of the parliament, using tear gas and plenty of physical violence pushed people away for a while. The cops used a new kind of tear gas that produces black smoke that people have not seen before. At least 7 people have been injured on Othonos st. but they managed to defend themselves against the police attack.

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21:10 GMT+2 Approximately 60 students from the occupied universities of Greece have squatted the TV studio of the main public TV station (NET) during live broadcast. The station cut off the programme that was on air and at the moment negotiations take place. The police is outside. Earlier the students went to the TV station requesting to be allowed to say a few words regarding their views about the new education reform bill, but they were not allowed to do so. There is a call for more people to go to the TV station in solidarity to the occupiers.

According to Russia Today: “The activists were stopped however by the TV channel’s management, who agreed to hold talks with the students to ask them to pass their demands in writing. The sides therefore agreed to first record the demands and only then broadcast them. The management then called the police and the activists left the building.”

22:15 GMT+2 The students remain in the TV channel premises. Riot police and supporters are concentrated in front of the TV channel. It seems that they are more than 60 people in the station and what they requested was for their video to be aired.

22:50 GMT+2 Police just attacked to people on Syntagma square. After the clashes earlier an open public assembly started on the square with circa 1,300 participants.

23:12 GMT+2 The occupiers still in the NET TV channel. People are still concentrating in front of the NET TV station, while the station is under pressure from people calling them requesting to show the students’ video.

Government spokesman Elias Mossialos said: “There has been an occupation at the state television channel NET and we are dealing with it. They are students, this is not an issue related to the channel!”

00:40 GMT+2 Earlier the director of the Greek Radio-Television (ERT) which owns NET, promised to broadcast the video of the students at the scheduled news show at 00:00. The occupiers told him that they will not leave the building until they broadcast the video as they cannot trust him. However, the entire 00:00 news show has not started yet. Twenty minutes ago a riot police bus entered the yard of the building, while people in solidarity are gathered while calls for more supporters was sent. The riot police in front of the station are wearing their full riot kit have come close to the solidarity gathering.

00:58 GMT+2 (via Keep Talking Greece) The Midnight News has not be on air until now. According to NET journalists, anchorman is in studio, 20 students wait outside to see if their announcement will be broadcast. Allegedly there is a technical problem with the students’ video (something like … technical default…) Other students remains outside NET

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01:30 GMT+2 The occupiers walked out of the building, they met with the 800-people solidarity gathering and they are marching away on Mesogeion av. Riot police units follow them. The channel just started broadcasting the news show.

01:45 GMT+2 The march just ended at the square of Ayia Paraskevi.

26 – 09 -2011: According to a report, a 8 years old child was attacked by the riot police.

Below: Photos and Video from Syntagma Square

Riot police officers push back a protester during an anti-austerity protest in front of the Greek parliament in Athens, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. Police used tear gas to disperse some 3000 protesters that gathered in front of the Greek parliament to protest against the government's planned austerity measures. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Protesters help a woman affected by tear gas during an anti-austerity protest in front of the Greek parliament in Athens, Sunday, Sept. 25 2011. Police used tear gas to disperse some 3000 protesters that gathered in front of the Greek parliament to protest against the government's planned austerity measures. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

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Photos from the TV Station intervention… “We break the wall of silence  – Victory for students’ and society struggle” (The banner)

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