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Clashes break out in Greece on anniversary of police killing
Dec 6, 2011, 13:20 GMT
Athens - Riot police clashed with hundreds of masked youths hurling chunks of marble and molotov cocktails in Athens on Tuesday on the third anniversary of the killing of a teenager by a policeman.
Police fired tear gas at the crowd of youths who broke away from a rally marking the anniversary of the killing of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos and began tearing up chunks of marble from hotel steps and smashed store fronts and banks.
More than 7,000 police officers have been deployed as a second rally by anti-establishment protesters is expected to take place later in the evening.
The murder of Grigoropoulos in 2008 triggered some of the worst rioting ever seen in Greece.
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