Tag: tear gas

The Greek police announced that during the "Macedonia is Greek" protest, that is taking place in the center of Athens, 140.000 people attended the protest and they arrived there from all corners of Greece with 283 buses, reports the Macedonian information agency (MIA). Parallel to the protest at the Syntagma square, only 800 meters away, anarchistic and antifascist organizations...

One of the officers yesterday who was seriously injured in the incident on the southern border, was held for further treatment at the Clinical Center "Mother Teresa" in Skopje, while four have been released from hospital. Yesterday, during the intervention between the Macedonian security forces with a crowd of several thousand migrants who tried to illegally enter Macedonian territory from...

14 policemen and 9 members of the Army, were injured in today's clash between the police and migrants at the Macedonian-Greek border, said the Ministry of Interior. The statement from the Interior Ministry reported that during the clash three vehicles were damaged from the MOI and five from the Army. According to initial estimates from the MOI more than 3,000 migrants...

Three police officers were injured in the clash this afternoon on the Macedonian-Greek border, where a police officers and a group of migrants clashed violently when the migrants tried to cross the border, the Interior Ministry confirmed for "Meta". The police officers were immediately transferred to the medical center in Gevgelija. Earlier, police threw tear gas to clear a group of...

After the incident where refugees in protest began to throw stones and broke through part of the wired fence on the Greek - Macedonian border, thousands of men, women and children have been sitting on the railway line this afternoon and continued their protest and demands that the Macedonian police let them through so they can continue their journey...

This morning, a large group of migrants, who have been stranded at Idomeni, used a makeshift battering ram with which they managed to break through the wire fencing on the southern border with Greece, and enter onto the Macedonian side, so reports the "BBC". The British state Broadcasting Company reported that on video footage from the site, one can see...

  At least eight people were injured after special police forces used shock-bombs and tear-gas to subdue an unruly crowd of several thousand migrants who are stuck between the borders of Greece and Macedonia, reports the news agency Associated Press, citing information obtained from the Greek police. Foreign agencies are reporting that the crowd of about 3000 people who spent the...

Macedonian special police members used tear gas to calm down a growing crowd of unruly migrants which was trying to enter from the border zone to Macedonia, reports Reuters and Radio Slobodna Evropa. The government of Macedonia declared an emergency situation and closed the south border to the migrants, who come mainly from Syria through Greece. The migrants had spent the...

Police from Lucknow, a city in northern India, uses a new weapon to deal with rioters - drones with tear gas. Jashavi Yadav, chief of police in Lucknow, said his officers successfully carried out a test flight of the drones, which were obtained to more effectively control the crowds. - The results are brilliant. We were able to learn how to...