Protesters smash and burn shops during clashes with police
- 10 years ago
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Greek police used water cannon to disperse rampaging protesters throwing petrol bombs on Saturday (December 6) in central Athens on the anniversary of the police killing of a teenager six years ago.
Riot police used tear gas to beat back protesters, including self proclaimed anarchists, in the bohemian Exarchia neighborhood, where they hurled stones, molotov cocktails, set fires and smashed shops and banks.
At least two shops were set on fire, and dozens of others damaged. Rubbish bins were set alight; police said they detained nearly 98 demonstrators.
The clashes erupted after about 6,000 protesters marched to commemorate the 2008 police shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, an anniversary that normally draws thousands of anti-establishment protesters.
This year's protest was in solidarity with a jailed self-proclaimed anarchist who witnessed the death of Grigoropoulos and who is now on hunger strike demanding he be allow
Greek police used water cannon to disperse rampaging protesters throwing petrol bombs on Saturday (December 6) in central Athens on the anniversary of the police killing of a teenager six years ago.
Riot police used tear gas to beat back protesters, including self proclaimed anarchists, in the bohemian Exarchia neighborhood, where they hurled stones, molotov cocktails, set fires and smashed shops and banks.
At least two shops were set on fire, and dozens of others damaged. Rubbish bins were set alight; police said they detained nearly 98 demonstrators.
The clashes erupted after about 6,000 protesters marched to commemorate the 2008 police shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, an anniversary that normally draws thousands of anti-establishment protesters.
This year's protest was in solidarity with a jailed self-proclaimed anarchist who witnessed the death of Grigoropoulos and who is now on hunger strike demanding he be allow