Overview
- Marchers chanted anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-NATO slogans, and the Athens procession to the U.S. embassy remained largely peaceful with no incidents at the site.
- Police reported 47 preventive detentions before the marches, with 11 culminating in arrests.
- Authorities deployed more than 5,000 officers with drone and helicopter surveillance to secure routes and guard U.S. and Israeli diplomatic sites.
- Turnout estimates cited by local media included over 15,000 participants in Athens and more than 9,000 in Thessaloniki.
- In Thessaloniki, demonstrators burned U.S. and NATO flags near the U.S. consulate, according to the newspaper Macedonia.