Hundreds of protesters battled with riot police today (April 13, 2014) in one of the Greek capital's main shopping districts, the Ekathimerini (Greek Daily) website reports.
About 500 protesters -- which included retail employees as well as several anarchists -- closed access to shops on a central Athens street and handed leaflets protesting the extension of Sunday shopping and longer opening hours for the shops.
A large throng of passers-by protested the action and in the end it was riot police who dispersed the protesters pushing them back using pepper spray, which also sent passers-by scrambling to avoid the noxious fumes.
Left-wing activists and the Greek Orthodox Church oppose the extension of Sunday shopping for different reasons.
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