The Riots of Athens

Major riots in the streets of Athens occurred after the shooting of a teenage boy by riot police over the weekend. A massive student protest against proposed government reforms of state universities turned ugly after a police officer opened fire after youths threw objects at his car. Two police officers have been arrested in connection with the Andreas Grigoropoulos' death. The Greek Prime Minister, Costas Karamanlis, has expressed his sympathy to the boy's parents, and said his government would act to stop what he called such a tragedy from taking place again.

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Comment by PANDA JU on December 10, 2008 at 12:56am: Thanks for posting. I didn't even know this had happened.

Comment by Annie on December 9, 2008 at 3:18pm: i saw this on the news and was looking forward to your hi-def recap.

fighting violence with violence--doesn't really make sense to me, but then again--i couldn't possibly understand what these kids are going through.