Cypriot protester arrested in Thessalonica

GREEK police arrested a Cypriot man on Saturday in connection with violence at an anti-EU march near Salonica, Cyprus Consul General Antonios Theocharous said in Greece yesterday.

Iacovos Mylonas, who is in his late twenties, was arrested and remanded in custody by police along with 29 other people after clashes between anarchist protesters and riot police broke out in the village of Marmaras, close to the coastal resort of Porto Carras where a European Union summit took place over the weekend.

According to Theocharous, Mylonas, who lives in Alexandroupolis, will appear before magistrates when a date is set. He could not confirm what offences Mylonas had been charged with. However, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported yesterday that 27 of the 29 people arrested were charged on Saturday with three counts of felony and five counts if misdemeanour by criminal prosecutor Argyris Demopoulos.

According to CNA the 27 suspects were charged with a number of offences, including the possession and manufacture of explosive devices, carrying out malicious damage, resisting arrest and illegally carrying and using firearms.

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