- Title: Clashes erupt at anniversary marches over police brutality in Greece
- Date: 6th December 2022
- Summary: THESSALONIKI, GREECE (DECEMBER 6, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS TEAR GAS AND FLASH BOMBS FIRED BY POLICE TOWARDS PROTESTERS AS CLASHES TAKING PLACE, PETROL BOMBS BEING FIRED BY PROTESTERS AT POLICE FLARES BEING THROWN AT POLICE FIRES IN STREETS FROM PETROL BOMBS VARIOUS OF GARBAGE BINS ON FIRE ATHENS, GREECE (DECEMBER 6, 2022) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS PASSING PARLIAMENT DURING A DEMONSTRATION POLICE ON GUARD OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT POLICE AND PROTESTERS OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT PROTESTERS MARCHING PROTESTERS RUNNING FROM TEAR GAS BEING FIRED BY POLICE AS CLASHES ERUPT FLARES BEING FIRED BY PROTESTERS POLICE DETAIN PROTESTER POLICE HOLD DETAINED PROTESTER ON GROUND FIRES IN STREETS DURING CLASHES AS RIOT POLICE PASS VARIOUS OF FIRES BURNING IN GARBAGE BINS AND IN STREETS THESSALONIKI, GREECE (DECEMBER 6, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF POLICE STANDING NEXT TO BURNING TYRES AND FIRES IN THE STREET DURING SCUFFLES WITH PROTESTERS FROM THE ROMA COMMUNITY FIRES IN THE STREET TRACTOR ON FIRE AT PROTEST BY ROMA COMMUNITY MEMBERS MEMBERS OF THE ROMA COMMUNITY STAGING PROTEST ACROSS FROM POLICE BEHIND FIRES FIRES AT PROTEST
- Embargoed: 20th December 2022 21:14
- Keywords: Greece Roma clashes police brutality
- Location: ATHENS AND THESSALONIKI, GREECE
- City: ATHENS AND THESSALONIKI, GREECE
- Country: Greece
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Europe
- Reuters ID: LVA001491806122022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Greek police detained at least 35 people in Athens and in the northern city of Thessaloniki late on Tuesday (December 6) after clashes broke out during protests to mark the 14th anniversary of the killing of a teenager by police.
Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets in both cities in a symbolic protest against police brutality on the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos, on an Athens street in 2008, whose death triggered Greece's worst riots in decades then.
Hours after Grigoropoulos was shot, thousands took to the streets torching cars, looting, and smashing window shops. The police officer was sentenced to life imprisonment but was released earlier by an Appeal court.
In both cities, protesters threw petrol bombs and flares at riot police guarding the demonstrations, who responded with teargas and flash bombs.
The protests came as members of the Roma community in Thessaloniki also scuffled with police during a demonstration over the shooting of a 16-year-old Roma boy on Monday, being treated in hospital for head injuries. The protesters there set up barricades and lit fires in the streets, including setting a tractor alight.
Police alleged the boy drove away from a gas station without paying for gas. A police chase ensued, where the boy was wounded by a bullet. One officer has been arrested over the incident.
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