Several incidents broke out in downtown Athens during the protest rallies over the Tempi train collision and the safety of public transportation on Wednesday.

Police said that around 15:30 during the large rally downtown, a group of about 50 individuals broke away from the crowd on the lower side of Syntagma Square and started attacking police with petrol bombs, stones, and other objects. The police made use of teargas.

More incidents broke out before the Monument of the Unknown Soldier at Syntagma, and police forced the individuals to head toward Panepistimiou street. More incidents broke out at the University of Athens rector's office (Propylea), when nearly 200 masked individuals attacked police.

At the same time, unknown people burned a car, broke store windows and bus stops, and vandalized the monument for the victims of Marfin.

Incidents also broke out at Pireos street in Omonia, with unknown people lighting dumpsters there and around the archaeological site of Kerameikos. Police rounded up 13 individuals for identification.

A total of 28 people were rounded up and brought to police departments for identification. Of these, 7 of these detentions were changed to arrests.

In the evening, police shut down traffic on Vassilissis Amalias, Vassilissis Sofias, and Stadiou streets because of protests held by various groups at Syntagma over the train crash and for International Women's Day.

In a statement on the Marfin monument, the Municipality of Athens said it would repair the plaque at the site "once again" after the destruction "by so-called protesters".