The guns came out, once again, In the serious incidents that took place in the settlement of "Agia Sophia" in Thessaloniki, with the gypsies shooting in the air and towards the police forces, as shown in the documentary images published by the Greek protothema.gr.
It all started on 15.45 when a group of gypsies came out of the settlement and set up barricades lighting fires on vehicle tyres on Pontou Street.
A few minutes later they moved against the riot police forces that were lined up outside the Thessaloniki Subdirectorate of Transportation, with the police responding with tear gas in order to repel them.
The Roma group headed to the road outside the settlement, setting up new barricades and lighting fires.
The first shots from shotguns started firing in the air just before 6pm, with the Gypsies continually threatening the police officers that they would take the guns and daring them to go towards them.
According to police sources, the riot police transmitted to the Operations Centre that the individuals were acting with weapons, and were instructed to take all necessary self-protection measures.
The shooting by the Gypsies continued, while the bullets were fired several times past the platoons, without any injuries. Officers asked reporters to move away from the scene as the situation was dangerous to their physical integrity, however several vehicles leaving nearby businesses were passing by the spot.
It will be recalled that this was not the first time shots had been fired through the settlement, as the same had happened in last Tuesday's incidents.
It is noted that the situation was defused two hours after the start of the incidents, with the intervention of the cooler gypsies who asked the rioters to put out the fires and enter the settlement in order for the police forces to be removed.
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