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Riot police removes former ERT employees from defunct state broadcaster's 
headquarters

  
An Athens prosecutor ordered riot police officers to enter the headquarters of 
the now defunct state 
broadcaster ERT in the early hours of Thursday.

According to early reports, riot police units asked former ERT employees who 
were broadcasting from the 
building to leave the premises in the northern suburb of Agia Paraskevi.

Protesters subsequently gathered outside the building at 6 a.m. Traffic was 
interrupted on Mesogheion 
Avenue early on Thursday.

“The battle for democracy and social justice which ERT workers have been 
fighting for more than four 
months, has reached its most crucial moment,” read a message on ERT's Facebook 
page calling for people to 
protest in solidarity. “It's time to act, rally now!”

Reports suggested that four former ERT employees were detained by police for 
questioning.

A group of 10 SYRIZA MPs who attempted to enter the premises were reportedly 
stopped by police forces.

In comments made on Thursday, Pantelis Kapsis, the deputy minister for public 
radio and television denied 
knowledge of plans to raid the building, saying the operation was organized by 
the Ministry of Public 
Order.

Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said the operation marked “the end of an 
illegal occupation.”

“The authorities have implemented the law,” Kedikoglou told Skai radio.

The government's decision to close down the media network last June citing the 
need for cost-cutting 
measures due to the ongoing debt crisis drew international criticism, while a 
number of laid-off ERT 
employees continued to produce programs streamed online.

Meanwhile, an interim network replacing ERT started broadcasts in July.

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