Riot police were deployed in the Greek city of Thessaloniki as a city-wide ban on protests was implemented after two weeks of turmoil in response to a new documentary film and its accompanying "blasphemous" poster.
Those incensed by the film and its poster had previously announced plans to disrupt the premiere of Greek filmmaker Elina Psykou's “Stray Bodies”. The film's poster features a bare-breasted pregnant woman nailed to a cross in what appears a hybrid image of the Virgin Mary and Jesus melded into one person, and which has been deemed “blasphemous” by Greek Church officials and conservative political leaders.
