Alexis Tsipras, head of the parliamentary group of the Greek Left coalition Syriza, reacted to the imprisoning of two party’s cadres in a cafe-bookshop where a book presentation was taking place.

Tsipras referred to an "unprovoked police intervention”, despite the police argues that there was a group of 30 troublemakers attacking police officers in the streets, who then rushed to the bookshop. But it remains to understand what reason took the police to arrest the cadres of Syriza present in the event.

According to Greek agency Ana-mpa, the Minister for Protection of the Citizen Michalis Chrysohoidis contacted the writer Dimitris Papachristos as soon as he was informed, and ordered that all those taken for questioning be released.

However, Alexis Tsipras denounced the “permanent police state climate" that is being cultivated in that specific neighbourhood — so called Athens' "bohemian"- which is causing increasing dissatisfaction and reaction among alternative activists.

Syriza is the coalition where Synaspismos, an EL member party, takes part.