(en) Media,Greek police clash with retail employee protesters in Athens

Hundreds of protesters battled with riot police in one of the Greek capital's main 
shopping districts. No injuries or damage have been reported. ---- About 500 protesters, 
which included retail employees but also several anarchists, closed access to shops on a 
central Athens street and handed leaflets protesting the extension of Sunday shopping and 
longer opening hours for the shops. --- A large throng of passers-by protested the action 
and in the end it was riot police who dispersed the protesters pushing them back using 
pepper spray, which also sent passers-by scrambling to avoid the noxious fumes.---Despite 
the protest, which lasted about three hours, shop owners claimed business was brisk before 
and after. ---- Left-wing activists and the Greek Orthodox Church oppose the extension of 
Sunday shopping for different reasons.