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Greek journalists Friday attacked police conduct at a demonstration in central Athens with the interior minister conceding that there might have been excesses.
Fourteen lawyers were among those detained after an estimated 3,000 people, chiefly teachers and students, took part in a demonstration, at times violent, against the government.
The march was organised on the anniversary of the 1991 murder of Nikos Temponeras, a teacher who was bludgeoned to death by a right-wing unionist.
Initial skirmishes broke out near the university between dozens of young people wearing hoods and anti-riot police who fired gas to disperse them.
Bins were set on fire and sticks and stones thrown at the security forces.
Clashes continued in the area which was closed to traffic and where hundreds of demonstrators remained for an hour.
There were repeated police charges and several arrests were made. Later police headquarters were sealed off.
The detained lawyers were released after the intervention of their professional association.
The influential Athens journalists' union (ESHEA) protested to the interior ministry about "the brutal attacks and beatings" to which reporters and camera crews had been subjected.
"There may have been excesses to be condemned, we are looking into the issue, but the police did their job," Interior Minister Procopis Pavolopoulos told Greek television.
Calm had returned by the evening.
Greece has been rocked by major unrest since the police shooting of a teenager, 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos.
The boy's death on December 6 unleashed a wave of anger that degenerated into the worst riots Greece has seen in decades with hundreds of stores in several cities vandalised and dozens looted in the days following his death.
Police were frequently targeted during the height of the unrest with precinct stations in Athens and other cities attacked with stones and squad cars torched.
Greek protesters say they are striking out against police repression, corrupt politicians and a social system that offers little hope, while the government blames the violence on loosely organised self-styled anarchists.
The nationwide unrest has left hundreds of banks, stores and public buildings destroyed, badly damaged by fire or looted.
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, whose parliamentary majority consists of just one deputy, is already shaken by corruption scandals and opposition to unpopular reforms, now faces a new political crisis.
Greece's socialist opposition has stepped up calls for the prime minister to call new elections.
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