Youths protesting police violence attack Athens precinct

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister has appealed for calm after youths protesting an incident of police violence attacked an Athens police station with firebombs and severely injured one officer. The violence came during a march Tuesday by several thousand people in the southern Nea Smyrni district. At one point in the clashes, rioters pulled down a policeman riding pillion in a column of motorcycle police. Dozens rushed at him, hitting him with clubs and stones and raining blows on him. The march to the Nea Smyrni police station was in reaction to an incident on Sunday during police enforcement of pandemic lockdown measures in a square in the Nea Smyrni area.