Authorities fired tear gas at hundreds of Muslims in central Athens, Greece, on Friday 22 May 2009 as they protested after a Greek policeman defaced a Quran owned by an Iraqi immigrant.
The clashes occurred outside Parliament as the demonstrators expressed their anger throwing rocks and plastic bottles at police, and smashing windows of a luxury hotel in central Syntagma Square.
Chanting “God is great!” and waving copies of Quran, the Islam’s holy book, about 1,000 Muslim immigrants demonstrated to Parliament to express their outrage.
