Outdated video of Greek protests shared with claims nation is ‘paralysed’
By Euronews
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A video of a giant crowd within the Greek metropolis of Thessaloniki has been shared on-line alongside claims that protests have introduced the nation to a standstill.
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“Greece is paralysed”, a number of posts say, claiming that airports, ports, factories and trains have stopped working. Others describe large protests erupting throughout the nation.
The footage reveals an actual demonstration, nevertheless it was filmed greater than a yr earlier than the posts appeared.
The similar footage was posted on-line in February 2025, when massive demonstrations throughout Greece marked the second anniversary of the Tempi rail catastrophe.
In February 2023, 57 folks had been killed when a passenger practice and a freight practice collided close to Tempi in central Greece, with the catastrophe sparking anger and requires enhanced railway security within the nation.
The anniversary protests had been accompanied by a normal strike on flights, practice companies and ferries. Hundreds of hundreds demonstrated in additional than 300 cities and cities in Greece and overseas, demanding justice for the 57 folks killed in 2023.
This, nonetheless, occurred in 2025. The resurfaced movies don’t point out a brand new shutdown in September of this yr.
The catastrophe stays a painful difficulty in Greece. A legal trial started in Larissa in March and is at the moment ongoing, with 36 defendants, together with a station grasp and railway officers, going through costs related to the collision and subsequent deaths. Relatives of the victims proceed to hunt solutions, a few of whom are giving proof.
There had been certainly protests in Greece in September: hundreds of individuals demonstrated in Thessaloniki on 5 September 2026.
These protests surrounded the price of dwelling disaster and known as for motion on wages and pensions, coinciding with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ annual speech on the economic landscape within the metropolis.
More than 25,000 protested in Thessaloniki, in line with police estimates cited by AP. Unions and different teams known as for greater incomes.
These demonstrations are, nonetheless, separate from the footage posted in 2025, which isn’t current.
