Greek referendum ‘threatens return to civil war’

Supporters of a Yes vote demonstrate in Athens. Picture: Getty

As PENSIONERS queued outside shuttered banks and fares were suspended on public transport in Athens to keep the Greek capital moving, fears were voiced that this weekend’s referendum threatened to take the country back to political divisions of its bloody civil war.

A pro-Europe rally in favour a “Yes” vote outside the Green Parliament in Syntagma Square began peacefully yesterday evening, following a similarly calm “No” demonstration the previous night.

But Dimitris Deniozos, a retired former general secretary at the ministry of scientific research, said divisions were growing, blaming the “bravura” of those who want to reject terms laid down by Greece’s creditors.