(2 Feb 2014) There were more scuffles between riot police and leftist protesters in the Greek capital Athens late on Saturday.
The demonstrators had been staging a rally in protest at a gathering of supporters of the extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party in central Athens.
Police had banned both right and left extremists from marching through the city to prevent bloody clashes between the two.
The scuffles broke out when the leftists spotted a man carrying a Greek flag, attacking and injuring him slightly.
Riot police used stun grenades and teargas to disperse the crowd.
The chase eventually ended at a metro station, where police again used teargas and chased protesters through the tunnels.
Protesters set fire to rubbish bins and a cash withdrawal machine (ATMs), but the riot was short-lived.
Police detained six persons and eventually arrested one.
The Golden Dawn rally commemorated a 1996 incident which cost the lives of three navy officers and brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of war.
Golden Dawn has been holding the rally for years at the monument dedicated to the three officers, in central Athens.
At Saturday's rally, a party spokesman announced the founding of National Dawn, a party that would serve as a way to circumvent a possible ban on Golden Dawn.
Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos, his deputy and four other lawmakers, a third of Golden Dawn's 18-member caucus in the 300-strong Greek parliament, are behind bars pending their trial for allegedly being part of a "criminal organisation".
Michaloliakos was arrested last September, days after a leftist rapper was murdered by an alleged Golden Dawn member.
Since the arrest, there have been calls to ban the party and the name change is seen as a contingency response to provide a legal front in case of such a ban.
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