Riots in anarchist neighborhood of Exarchia in Athens

athens - A group of masked people, in the night from Saturday to Sunday bombarded police with Molotov cocktails and stones in the Exarchia district of the Greek capital Athens. Also stop the rioters dumpsters on fire.

When the riots were no injuries. Sunday morning calm settled back in Exarchia.

Exarchia is located between two major universities. The opposition socialist party PASOK, extreme leftist groups and human rights organizations have their headquarters. It comes regularly to confrontations between autonomists and the police. Anarchists, but also drug gangs, make it the last few years in charge.

Saturday Rouvikonas anarchist group tried to enter the office of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens. Fourteen people were arrested, the newspaper Kathimerini reported.