who have been protesting a proposed landfill for three months, a cabinet member said.
Citizens' Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis said police have been following instructions in Keratea to stay cool and avoid provocation, Ekathimerini reported. He said the officers run a "daily risk of being burned or injured."
On Thursday, Keratea protesters used rocks and rubble to block the road connecting Athens and Lavrio, a port and ferry terminus about 60 miles southeast of the capital. Constantinos Levantis, the top elected official for the area that includes Keratea suggested in a radio interview that the presence of the riot police is a provocation and calm would not return until they are pulled out of the town.
Papoutsis, however, said the judiciary must intervene. He said the hundreds of riot police in the area have been threatened and physically assaulted.
source: UPI
