A 41-year-old truck owner was led before a prosecutor in the northern city of Kavala on Tuesday accused of slightly injuring a 55-year-old Bulgarian truck driver and damaging the latter's vehicle.

The incident was reported as truck owners in Greece continue various protests against now ratified legislation finally liberalising the road freight transport sector in the country.

The 41-year-old, who is accused of obstructing traffic, damaging private property and assault, was identified by the victim as one of the truck owners whose vehicles were parked along the Nea Karvali section of the Egnatia motorway which stretches across the breadth of northern Greece.

The suspect and other four suspects, as yet unidentified, allegedly used private cars at dawn on Monday to block the highway and force the 55-year-old Bulgarian national to stop his truck at the Stavros Amigdaleonas section of the Egnatia motorway.