Meanwhile, an internal investigation has been launched after a video emerged of a police officer mockingly playing around with flowers placed at the point of the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos.ĭuring the rallies, police and protesters clashed with officers using tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd. The arrests and prevention of rallies caused a political clash with major opposition party SYRIZA and other opposition parties from the left expressing their opposition to the tactics used by police. The group of youngsters soon get engaged in a brief verbal confrontation with the patrol car’s crew of two, although the car soon decamps. The Athens Bar Association issued a press bulletin expressing its stern protestation to the Police and the Ministry of Citizen Protection over the detainment and arrest of its members, stating the act was a serious blow to the core of the rule of law and the essence of their legal practice. Fifteen-year-old schoolboy Alexandros Grigoropoulos is hanging out with a group of friends in Athens’ central district of Exarchia, on a typical Saturday night. The same sources say that a total of twelve attempts at holding rallies were prevented. According to SKAI TV, some of the suspects were transferred to the Attica Directorate of Foreigners. Two lawyers, Thanasis Kampagiannis and Costas Papadakis were among those initially detained but were later released. Police detained a total of 374 people on Sunday in Athens, of which 135 were turned into arrests, for the violation of the Covid-19 lockdown measures during protest/rallies held on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the assassination of Alexandros Grigoropoulos. On December 6th, 2008, Greek Police Officer Epaminondas Korkoneas, shot and killed 15 year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Athens, Greece. “These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism.” Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said “there are no other ‘sides’ to hatred and bigotry.” Florida Senator Marco Rubio also noted it would be “very important for the nation to hear describe events in #Charlottesville for what they are, a terror attack by. President-we must call evil by its name,” Colorado Senator Cory Gardner wrote on Twitter. Some Republican lawmakers also chastised Trump’s response in implicit and explicit terms. However, more controversially, President Trump initially refused to condemn racism and instead blamed " many sides" for the violence: Several politicians denounced both violence and white supremacy - which culminated in Charlottesville with a white supremacist driving his car into a crowd of counter-protestors, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens more. The antifa logo was digitally added to this image, which was then reshared as if it depicted a recent incident in an attempt to show that "both sides" contributed to the violence in Charlottesville: The protester's jacket in the original image was blank. Two police officers will go on trial in the new year for the murder of Grigoropoulos. Greek youths clash with riot police during a demonstration commemorating the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos' by police a year ago, on Decemin central Athens, Greece. The murder proved to be a spark for a wave of often violent protests that rocked Greek cities for days as popular outrage reached a boiling point. Photographer Milos Bicanski took the photograph, which is available on Getty Images with the following caption: On the 6th December of 2008, 15 year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was gunned down in cold blood by a police officer in the center of Athens. The real image was taken in Athens, Greece in December 2009 during a demonstration on the one-year anniversary of the death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old who was killed by a police officer.
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