Greek police shooting sparks riot

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New rules of engagement for capitalist police. You throw a bottle,
they shoot to kill. Resist now, or we are next.

Around 10 o'clock tonight (7/12) a police car was making its regular
runs around Eksarchia Square in the center of Athens. The area of
Eksarchia has always been a focal point for radical leftists and has
a tradition of militant political activity. Police presence in the
area is always vigilant and the cops who patrol the streets of
Eksarchia are always trigger-happy and act like they are in occupied
territory.

Some comrades saw the police car and decided to openly declare their
opposition to its provocative presence in the square. They threw some
stones and a few bottles of water against the pigs and told them to
leave. The cops who were riding in the squad-car, are part of a new
elite police unit, the ?blue-suits?, which has been created for the
specific purpose of taking repressive measures against militant
demonstrators. They are specially-trained and politically
indoctrinated.

Two of them got out of the car. They threw flashbang grenades against
those present in the square and one of them pulled his gun and shot
in cold blood the 15-year old in the stomach. Apparently, their
orders are to respond with full force against anything they might
interpret as ?provocation?. The youngster died 15 minutes after he
was transferred to
the hospital. His name was Grigoropoulos Andreas and he is the latest
victim in a long list of state-murders.

Comrades are assembling everywhere in Greece to avenge the murder of
Andreas and make the bastards pay. Athens will see no peace until his
death is vindicated.

In memory of Andreas.
Make the bastards pay!

Greece is burning, several universities occupied and turned into
convergeance. heavy protetsts all over greece actually.

time to check adresses of greece embassades....

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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081207/world/international_us_greece_shooting

Greek police shooting sparks riot
BBC Dec. 6, 2008

Youths rioted after the news of the teenager's death was reported

Riots have broken out in several Greek cities after police shot dead
a teenager in the capital Athens.

The unrest began in Athens soon after the shooting in Exarchia
district, a regular scene of clashes between police and leftist groups.

Youths threw petrol bombs, burned cars and smashed shop windows.

Riots then spread to Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, to
the northern cities of Komotini and Ioannina, and to Crete.

Two officers have been suspended, and an inquiry is under way.

Interior minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos said in a statement: "The
government expresses its profound regret over this incident.

"An inquiry on the circumstances of the death has already begun
and, if the policemen are found to have been derelict in their duty,
the punishment will be exemplary."

Resignation offered

In Athens police fired tear gas at hundreds of stone-throwing youths,
who went on a rampage as news of the shooting spread.

 

It looks like something out of a war film, like Black Hawk Down
Jonathan Recaldin
Local resident

After a lull of a couple of hours, rioting resumed shortly after
midnight local time (2200 GMT), with some protesters marching through
Athens city centre and others fighting police outside the National
Technical University of Athens, the Associated Press news agency
reported.

One British student in Exarchia, whose accommodation is on the
road leading to the university, said the scene was "unbelievable".

"The air is thick with burning fuels, it's very hard to
breathe. It looks like something out of a war film, like Black Hawk
Down, and I say that without over-estimation," Jonathan Recaldin wrote
to the BBC News website.

In Thessaloniki dozens of youths attacked a police precinct, while
others blocked a road near the university campus.

Map of Greece

People were being encouraged to join in the protests via some
websites, AP said.

An Interior Ministry press officer told Reuters news agency that
Mr Pavlopoulos had offered his resignation to Prime Minister Costas
Karamanlis, but it had been rejected.

Police issued a statement after the shooting, saying a patrol
car with two officers inside was attacked by about 30 youths throwing
stones.

They were attacked again and responded, with one firing a stun
grenade and the other shooting and fatally wounding the boy, AP quoted
the statement as saying.

The BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says the shooting and
rioting are certain to ramp up clashes between anarchists and police.
The Exarchia area is regarded as a fortress by anarchists who
frequently lure police into it, then attack them with rocks.

A similar shooting in 1985 led to years of violence.

Residents have recently protested over rising crime and
lawlessness, and complain that the police fail to answer emergency
calls, staying barricaded in their police stations, our correspondent
adds.