GREEK CITIES HIT BY FRESH RIOTING!

Fresh clashes have broken out between police and protesters across Greece for a third day, after the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old by police on Saturday.
Hundreds of students battled police in Thessaloniki, while protests also turned violent in Trikala, the port of Piraeus, and on the island of Corfu.
Five demonstrations are planned in major cities later, including a mass rally by the Communist Party in Athens.
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis has gone on television to appeal for calm.
He said that "extreme elements" were taking advantage of the situation to engage in vandalism and pledged to compensate businesses damaged.

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Mr Karamanlis has already written to the dead boy's parents expressing his profound sorrow and vowed to stop "such a tragedy" from happening again.
A post-mortem is being carried out on the body of Alexandros Grigoropoulos to determine the trajectory of the bullet that killed him.
Two police officers have been arrested in connection with the incident. The officer who fired contends it was a ricochet from a warning shot, but witnesses told Greek TV it was a direct hit.
The boy's family has hired an independent pathologist to ensure there is no cover-up.
Hundreds of students clashed with riot police in Thessaloniki, Greece's second biggest city.
Students at the city's Aristotle university spent the night holed up on campus stockpiling missiles and petrol bombs before taking to the streets, says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens.

He says they then retreated safe in the knowledge that they could not be followed as Greece's constitution strictly prevents the security forces from entering the grounds of schools, universities and polytechnics.
There was also trouble in the central city Trikala, in Greece's agricultural heartland, and a police station was attacked in Piraeus, the maritime gateway linking Athens with the Greek islands.
And in Corfu, there were violent scenes as protesters attacked a police station.
Meanwhile in Germany, a dozen demonstrators occupied the Greek consulate in Berlin, replacing the Greek flag with a banner proclaiming Greece a "murderer state".
Five demonstrations are planned in major cities at dusk, including a rally by the Communist Party of Greece and the opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), in Athens. Pasok's youth wing has called for the protests to be peaceful.

MAJOR RIOTING IN GREECE :

1973 - Repression of student uprising in Athens helps bring down military junta a year later
1985 - Youths clash with police in Athens after rally marking 1973 uprising becomes violent and police shoot dead 15-year-old boy
1991 - Riots break out across the country after a school teacher is killed during protests in Patras
1995 - Riots erupt after protest in Athens and revolt in prison ahead of 1973 uprising's anniversary
1999 - Police clash with protesters opposing a visit by US President Bill Clinton to Athens
2003 - Youths battle police during an EU summit in Thessaloniki
2008 - Protesters battle police across country after an officer shoots dead a teenager in Athens.

Our correspondent says opposition parties are capitalising on the national sense of outrage.
Even though an individual policeman precipitated the worst violence seen in Greece in decades, the government is getting the blame, he says.
The government is extremely vulnerable, reeling from a series of scandals and only has a majority of one in parliament, he adds.
In a nationally televised address on Monday, Prime Minister Karamanlis called for calm, unity, restraint and a sense of solidarity with the dead boy's family.
"Unfortunately, extreme elements have exploited this sad event for their own purposes," he said.
Mr Karamanlis condemned the attacks on property by rioters as unjustified and said he had asked the economy minister to ensure that those who had suffered losses would be compensated.
Greek business owners have been horrified at the damage inflicted across the country. Banks have been a particular target.
Our correspondent says Mr Karamanlis's unspoken message to Greeks at large is that if you do not stop rioting you will pay for it through your taxes in the end.
The riots began on Saturday after Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot dead by police in the Exarchia area of Athens.

The unrest spread over the weekend to Thessaloniki, Patras, Larissa, and Volos, and the islands of Crete, Samos and Corfu.
Dozens of protesters and police have been injured during pitched battles on the streets, involving petrol bombs and tear gas.
On Sunday, the prime minister wrote to the boy's parents: "In these difficult moments please accept my condolences for the unfair loss of your son. Like all Greeks I am deeply saddened."
However, our correspondent says that nothing the politicians or authorities can say or do is likely to reduce the anger that is building.
A similar shooting incident in 1985 led to a lengthy vendetta between the youths and police, with violence continuing for years.

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