Hundreds of farmers arrived from the island of Crete staged today clashes with police in Athens , where they arrived to participate in a concentration against reform B that the Government is negotiating with the country’s creditors.
a 800 farmers , who arrived this morning in three shuttles to Piraeus port, threw stones at riot police that prevented them from entering the Ministry of Agriculture, in the center of the capital, and burned several containers, to which police responded with teargas and firecrackers.
Previously, agents also had prevented the passage of a truck loaded with vegetables that demonstrators tried to distribute among the bystanders.
As a result of the stones are broke several windows on the first floor of the Ministry, although no one was injured.
at the height of the town of Dafní, one of the hotspots in Athens, there were also clashes between peasants from the Peloponnese and agents when they were prevented from entering the city with tractors .
today farmers maintain roadblocks and highways and just have some partially lifted to facilitate the movement of his companions to the capital.
Workers field across the country are meeting today in the central Syntagma square, home of Parliament, where they intend to camp at least two days in protest against pension reform aims at equating the system of contributions employees, which increase their contributions to social security .
the government’s plan includes gradually raise the prices farmers the current 7% of their taxable income to 26.95% .
Another major conflict in this sector is tax reform , which for the most part already been approved last fall and includes a sharp rise in the tax burden through the abolition of numerous privileges , for example, in buying diesel.
Source: Efe
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