Greek police demand arrest of EU-IMF mission over austerity

(ATHENS) - Greek police unionists have called for the arrest of head auditors from the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank for destroying social cohesion with a tough austerity plan ongoing for a third year.

Greek police federation Poasy added that it was offering a bounty of one euro ($1.3) apiece for each of the mission chiefs from the three organisations, known as the 'troika', whom it called the "undertakers of our people's dreams".

"For two years, the national federation of police officers has warned you that the policies you dictate and demand to be implemented at gunpoint will explode social cohesion and kill off any hope to restore the Greek economy," the union said.

"We will ask for the immediate issue of arrest warrants," it said on Thursday.

Greece has been asked by its EU-IMF creditors to enact additional wage and pension cuts, a measure that has tested the fragile coalition government's cohesion, in order to unlock new loans worth 130 billion euros.

It will go bankrupt on March 20 without financial assistance, as it must repay a maturing bond worth 14.5 billion euros ($19 billion).