Anniversaire de la mort d’Alexis Grigoropoulos : affrontements à Athènes – 6 décembre 2010

Greek youths riot over shooting

UKPA

6 12 2010

Protesting youths have rioted in central Athens for more than six hours – attacking police with rocks, flares and petrol bombs – after a student rally marking two years since the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy.

The boy’s death in 2008 sparked Greece’s worst riots in decades, led to an surge in attacks by militant groups and continued anti-government violence as the country grapples with a serious debt crisis.

Police detained 83 youths in the capital, and five people were hurt, including a bystander hit in forehead by a flying rock. More…

Heurts entre jeunes et policiers à Athènes

france2.fr

Par FTV (avec AFP)

06/12/2010

Les policiers grecs ont fait usage de gaz lacrymogènes contre quelque 3.000 jeunes manifestants dans le centre d’Athènes

Ils manifestaient pour le second anniversaire de la mort d’un adolescent, Alexis Grigoropoulos, tombé sous les balles des policiers, ce qui avait déclenché les pires émeutes en Grèce durant des semaines

Un demi-millier d’entre eux se sont affrontés aux policiers devant les hôtels de luxe de la place Syntagma, près du Parlement. Il y a eu des blessés. Plus…

Three injured as Greek police clash with protesters

reuters.com

By Yannis Behrakis

ATHENS | Mon Dec 6, 2010

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek police clashed with youths hurling petrol bombs in Athens on Monday during protests to mark the anniversary of the 2008 police killing of a teenager that triggered the country’s worst riots in decades.

Three people were injured as thousands marched through the Greek capital in protests the authorities had feared would turn violent amid rising public discontent as Greece battles a debt crisis with stringent austerity measures. More…

(Additional reporting by Renee Maltezou; Writing by Dina Kyriakidou; Editing by Louise Ireland)