ARRIVAL OF MERKEL IN ATHENS
GREEK PROTESTERS REACT NEGATIVELY TO GERMAN MEDIA
WHEN PASSING ENRIKOS NTINAN HOSPITAL,
WORKERS WHO WERE BEING GUARDED BY RIOT POLICE,
THREW WATER BOTTLES AT THE AUTOMOBILE ENTOURAGE
WHICH WAS TAKING MERKEL TO CENTRAL ATHENS
MERKEL ARRIVES AT MEGARO MAXIMO MANSION,
AND GREETED BY PRIME MINISTER ANTONIS SAMARAS
PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF PARLIAMENT BURN GERMAN NAZI FLAGS
THE PEACEFUL PROTEST IS TURNING A BIT VIOLENT...
PANOS KAMMENOS AND HIS INDEPENDENT GREEK PARTY PLANNED A PROTEST
WALK TO THE GERMAN EMBASSY, BUT SECURITY WAS TOO TIGHT
AND THEY COULD NOT APPROACH THE EMBASSY
AS ALWAYS, PROVOCATEURS INFILTRATED INTO THE PROTEST
AND ARE NOW SCUFFLING IT OUT WITH THE GREEK RIOT POLICE
THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF TENSION NEAR PANEPISTIMIOU STREET
AS MERKEL AND SAMARAS HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE,
RIOTERS ARE IN A CAT AND MOUSE GAME WITH RIOT POLICE OUTDOORS
THE RIOT POLICE IS STILL CHASING PROVOCATEURS,
AS WELL AS NUDE PROTESTERS
THE GREEK RIOT POLICE IS STILL PLAYING
CAT AND MOUSE WITH PROVOCATEURS
SAMARAS AND MERKEL EXCHANGE A FEW WORDS
ON THEIR WAY
TO THE PRESIDENTIAL MANSION
AT THE PRESIDENTIAL MANSION, KAROLOS
PAPOULIAS
BRIEFED HER ON THE REPERCUSSIONS OF THE CRISIS
MEANWHILE IN THE CENTER OF ATHENS THE RIOTS CONTINUED
EVEN MP
FOR THE INDEPDENT GREEK PARTY
TERENCE QUICK WAS A VICTIM
FOLLOWING A MEETING AT THE HILTON HOTEL WITH
REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE
GREEK BUSINESS FORA,
MERKEL RETURNED TO THE AIRPORT TO FLY BACK TO BERLIN