The Far right, members of Golden Dawn and supporters of the military dictatorship buried general Nikos Dertilis, who was one of the organizers of the military coup in 1967. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting down the 20-year-old oppositionist Michalis Mavroyiannis during the student uprising at the Athens Polytechnic School on 18 November 1973.

The main protesters were public health workers. They gathered in front of the relevant ministry to express their dissatisfaction with the budget cuts, the lack of staff and the serious shortage of medicines.