Greece

Police were on alert in Athens on Tuesday for potential unrest triggered by planned rallies on the third anniversary of the killing of a teenager by a policeman. Authorities fear that the December 6 anniversary of the shooting of 15-year-old...

The former police officer who was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment for the murder of 15-year-old protester Alexandros Grigoropoulos in 2008 was released from jail on Tuesday. Epaminondas Korkoneas has served 11 of the 13 years of his sentence and his...

Today is the sixth anniversary of the killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a policeman, that triggered the most violent riots Athens has seen in recent years. It was a little before 9:00 on the evening of December 6, 2008,...

Demonstrations took place today in many Greek cities to honor the memory of Alexandros Grigoropoulos. It has been five years since Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot dead by a policeman in the Exarcheia district of central Athens. The murder of the young student...

Epaminondas Korkoneas, the policeman who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15- year-old schoolboy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos in 2008 in the Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, is still receiving his salary from the Greek state. According to “Ethnos tis Kiriakis” newspaper,...

Vassilis Saraliotis, a special guard who was found guilty of being an accomplice to the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos in Exarchia on 6th of December in 2008, was released on parole on Wednesday. The decision was taken by a five-member...

Clashes broke out in the center of Athens between youths and Greek police.  Thousands gathered near the main building of the University of Athens to commemorate the second anniversary of the killing of 16-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by police. Thousands...

The two police officers, Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis, being tried in connection to the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 are due to be released from custody on Sunday, June 6. The judge in the...

Often referred to as the anarchist neighbourhood of Athens, there is much more to Exarcheia than immediately meets the eye.

Jailed 25-year-old Nikos Romanos, in prison for attempted robbery and planting a bomb outside the house of a former minister, among others, was released on Wednesday on good behavior after serving six years in jail. Romanos was convicted in 2013...

Residents of the infamous Athens district of Exarcheia published an angry open letter on Wednesday which describes the climate of lawlessness which prevails in their neighborhood. The letter says that Exarcheia has become a "dark zone of Athens", as radical leftist...

Demonstrators marked the tenth anniversary of the killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos clashed with police in central Athens on Thursday. Youths hurled Molotov cocktails at police officers and smashed shop windows along Stadiou Street before police responded with teargas. Authorities deployed about...

More than 250,000 euros will be awarded as a compensation to the sister of Alexis Grigoropoulos; the 15-year old Greek student who was murdered by a policeman in 2008. The compensation was approved by the Greek police as a "monetary...

Clashes between police and hooded youths continued in the night on the occasion of the nine year-anniversary since the killing of high-school student Alexis Grigoropoulos. The clashes have moved to the infamous Exarchia neighbourhood of Athens where dozens of black-clad...

Sporadic clashes between anarchists and the police broke out in central Athens on the occasion of the nine year-anniversary since the killing of high-school student Alexis Grigoropoulos by a policeman. A few hundred students, among them dozens of black-clad youths,...