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Protesters demand to enter a courtroom where auctions of foreclosed properties are held in Athens Ryan Ramczyk Saints Jersey , Greece, on Nov. 29, 2017. Auctions of foreclosed properties in Greece resumed on Wednesday both at local courts and via the new introduced platform of electronic auctions, amid clashes of protesters with riot police in Athens and Thessaloniki. (XinhuaLefteris Partsalis)
by Alexia Vlachou
ATHENS, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Auctions of foreclosed properties inGreece resumed on Wednesday both at local courts and via the newintroduced platform of electronic auctions, amid clashes ofprotesters with riot police in Athens and Thessaloniki.
After home repossessions in courts across Greece having beenblocked for several months, the recommencement of the auctions wasmet with strong reactions and public uproar.
Riot police guarded the offices of notaries participating in theprocedure of electronic auctions. Protesters clashed with riotpolice at local courtrooms in the Greek capital later in theevening.
Three protesters were reportedly injured during their attempt toblock a scheduled property auction at the Athens local courtbuilding, after police used tear gas.
"With the use of violence, they prevented us from entering thecourtroom. This action makes the auctions performed today, 10 ofwhich were of first residence, invalid and illegal," LeonidasPapadopoulos, founding member of movement "Den Plirono" (I am notpaying) told journalists.
"They did not let debtors who were losing their properties todayto watch the procedure," he added, saying that every citizen has aright to enter and watch the procedure inside the court.
"In this country, there is a junta of auctions," the head of afar-left out-of-Parliament party, Panayiotis Lafazanis, a one-timeSYRIZA minister, told reporters, condemning the use of tear gasagainst the protesters.
Property auctions in Greece have systematically been blocked bygroups of protesters, which also targeted offices of lawyers andnotaries involved in the procedure.
Following a series of verbal attacks and threats against them,notaries boycotted foreclosures hearings, requesting protectionfrom the state. Their action had frozen the process of propertytransfers.
Greek notaries had declared a strike until the end of the year,but they called it off on Monday. They came into an agreement withthe Greek government after ensuring their security at proceedingsat specific courts.
As Greece's lenders returned for a scheduled review of thecountry's economic performance this week, the Greek governmentinaugurated the formula of e-auctions to facilitate banks to reducenonperforming loans and meet bailout targets.
The long-awaited electronic system was introduced successfullywith the first two electronic foreclosures.
"Today's auction was a test for the electronic system that hasbeen created and tested for the first time under real conditions,"the president of the notaries, Giorgos Rouskas, told localmedia.
"The first properties on the block were a cluster of parkingslots and a luxury home in an Athens suburb," Rouskas said.
Banks expect the pace of auctions to accelerate in the firstquarter of 2018 to around 600-700 monthly, reaching a total of18,000 properties by the end of the year.
Under bailout conditions Greek banks must settle one out ofthree bad loans by 2020, meaning non-performing loans should bereduced by some 30 billion euros. Enditem
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