Athens was mostly calm Thursday, allowing many Athenians to return to work for the first time in days, but protesters warned they were preparing themselves for street fights after nightfall.
A police spokesman said the situation was more contained Thursday than it has been since the weekend, when the police shooting of a teenager kicked off days of riots in Athens and across Greece.
"Of course there are sporadic clashes between students and police officials, but things are a scale or two lower than they were yesterday," police spokesman Panayiotes Stathis said. "There is a gradual deescalation and that's how we hope the situation will proceed." 
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-- Journalist Anthee Carassava and CNN's Eileen Hsieh contributed to this report.
