In Greece, the May Day demonstrations in Athens were marked by disruptions in urban and maritime transport due to a strike while more than two thousand people demonstrated in the streets.

The ferries that operate between mainland Greece and the islands of the Aegean and Ionian seas remained docked today, while the metro, buses and trams in Athens suffered work stoppages.

Turkish police detained 210 people in Istanbul as part of the May Day protests, using tear gas to disperse a group of protesters who tried to break through a police cordon near Taksim Square.

The authorities asked the protesters to avoid any action that could violate public order, and they threw plastic bottles and other objects at the security forces, according to reports from NTV television.

French MEP Raphael Glucksmann, who heads the Gallic socialist list for the European elections, was today prevented from participating in a May 1 parade after dozens of activists threw paint at him and shouted insults.

According to an AFP journalist, Glucksmann and his entourage, who had traveled to the city of Saint-Etienne (center-east of France) to join the procession celebrating International Workers' Day, were attacked by about fifty people who, as soon as they arrived, threw paint at them and shouted insults such as "Glucksmann, disappear" and "Palestine will live".

Denouncing the action of "about fifty thugs", some of whom belong to the radical left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI), the MEP, who had green paint stains on his forehead and red paint on his jacket, decided not to join the demonstration.

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal immediately condemned the acts of violence, stating that politics can sometimes "be a struggle in the noble sense of the term, but it must always be conducted with respect for the integrity of individuals".

The leader of the LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, also "totally disapproved" of the actions, which were partly attributed to activists from his party, stating that the action "constitutes a media diversion maneuver against May 1 and a role of victim for Glucksmann, who takes advantage of the situation" to accuse them.

In Germany, around 30 people were injured when a float in the May 1 parade overturned near the German city of Freiburg im Breisgau (southwest), local police reported.

The carriage, a trailer pulled by a tractor, "tipped over on its side" when the driver of the vehicle was making a left turn, he said in a statement, adding that "about thirty people" were injured in the accident, of whom "ten were seriously injured", according to the police.

The victims were treated by "numerous rescue forces, including several rescue helicopters, notably from neighboring Switzerland", the police said.

In Tunisia, more than 2,500 activists from the UGTT, the largest trade union center, demonstrated in the center of Tunis to mark May 1, in defense of "social dialogue and trade union rights".

"Work, freedom, national dignity," chanted the activists, who first gathered in the courtyard of a recently renovated headquarters before marching along the capital's main thoroughfare, Bourguiba Avenue.

According to the police, there were about 2,500 demonstrators and at least 3,500, according to the organizers.

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