800 Greek farmers storm Agriculture Ministry in Athens, police fire tear gas (VIDEO)

RT.com
12 Feb, 2016

Police in Athens have used tear gas to disperse a rally of farmers protesting pension austerity measures as they pelted the Agriculture Ministry with stones. A larger protest demonstration is due to start later Friday.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s formerly left-wing government plans to raise pension contributions and taxes to deal with Greece’s budget deficit. Farmers from across the country flocked to the capital to voice their outrage at the moves.

About 800 farmers from Crete “attempted to push the police in front of the [Agriculture] Ministry’s entrance. The police used tear gas to stop them,” a law enforcement official said.

They smashed windows with stones before the police pushed them away.

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