Youths hang protest banners from Acropolis

PROTESTERS hung two giant banners off the Acropolis yesterday with slogans calling for mass demonstrations across Europe and resistance, after days of violent protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Athens.

About a dozen protesters held the pink banners over the walls of the ancient citadel, Greece’s most famous monument, one bearing the word “Resistance” written in large black letters in Greek, English, Italian and German. The other called for mass demonstrations across Europe today.

The banners were taken down after two hours.