tension and battles between greek police and greek demonstrators took placed in the center of athens , where , during the opposed - war demonstration of the 4th european social expo which is going part in the athens government , from 4 to 7 of december 2006 . the marches of the approx 1 , 000 protestors ended with clashes between groups of leftists and police . riot police use tear gas , while a member of a greek government , a faster - drug store and around 50 shop windows in western athens were damaged .
The riots in Greece started on December 6.