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08 Dec 2008
Hundreds of youths angered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager have rampaged through Greece's two largest cities for a second day in some of the worst rioting the country has seen in years. Gangs smashed stores, torched cars and erected burning barricades yesterday in the streets of Athens and Thessaloniki. Riot police clashed with groups of mostly self-styled anarchists throwing Molotov cocktails, rocks and bottles. Clouds of tear gas hung in the air, sending passers-by scurrying for cover. Rioting in several cities, including Hania in Crete and cities in northern Greece, began within hours of the death Saturday night of a 15-year-old shot by police in Exarchia. The downtown Athens...
WorldNews.com -
07 Dec 2008
ATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters rampaged through Athens and the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Sunday, burning dozens of shops and vehicles in a second day of rioting after police shot dead a 15-year-old boy. A protester prepares to throw a stone at riot policemen during riots in Athens December 7, 2008. (REUTERS/John Kolesidis) Greece's worst protests in years erupted in the capital late on Saturday after the shooting of the teenager, identified by police as Alexandros Grigoropoulos, and quickly spread to Thessaloniki and the tourist islands of Crete and Corfu. Despite...
WorldNews.com -
07 Dec 2008
ATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters rampaged through Athens and the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Sunday, burning dozens of shops and vehicles in a second day of rioting after police shot dead a 15-year-old boy. Greece's worst protests in years erupted in the capital late on Saturday after the shooting of the teenager, identified by police as Alexandros Grigoropoulos, and quickly spread to Thessaloniki and the tourist islands of Crete and Corfu. Despite appeals for calm from the conservative government, leftist demonstrators and anarchists held running battles with security...
WorldNews.com -
07 Dec 2008
ELENA BECATOROS The Associated Press ATHENS, Greece - Hundreds of youths angered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager rampaged through Greece's two largest cities for a second day Sunday in some of the worst rioting the country has seen in years. Gangs smashed stores, torched cars and erected burning barricades in the streets of Athens and Thessaloniki. Riot police clashed with groups of mostly self-styled anarchists throwing Molotov cocktails, rocks and bottles. Clouds of tear gas hung in the air, sending passers-by scurrying for cover. Rioting in several cities, including Hania in Crete and cities in northern Greece, began within hours of the death Saturday night of a 15-year-old...