Unidentified persons beat Greece’s former finance minister, leader of the parliamentary leftist party Yanis Varoufakis in capital Athens on Friday evening, ERT 1 television reports.

Varoufakis, who does not use bodyguards, had dinner at a restaurant with members of his party's executive committee.

Subsequently, more than 10 people approached them and called the politician for a talk.

They broke Varoufakis' nose at the entrance of the aforesaid restaurant and after he fell, they continued to punch and kick him.

Judging by the shouts, the former minister was reminded that he once voted in favor of Greece's debt agreements with international creditors, ERT 1 added.

In 2015, Varoufakis headed the Ministry of Finance of Greece in the government of then-Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and fought to write off part of the country’s foreign debt and abandon austerity measures in negotiations with creditors.

After resigning from the aforesaid post the same year, Varoufakis was accused of delaying the talks, and this led to a referendum in Greece where more than 61 percent of Greeks opposed the draft agreement with creditors, but the results were ignored.

Yanis Varoufakis was taken to hospital on Friday.