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Police make 87 arrests after Athens night rampage
AFP - Wednesday, December 10
ATHENS, (AFP) - - Police in Athens have made 87 arrests after youths rampaged through the city centre following a demonstration to protest a teen's fatal shooting by police, police said Tuesday.
Most of the arrests involved looters who descended on the city's stores after some of the worst violence the country has seen in decades.
Twelve police officers were injured Monday in clashes with protesters and at least 10 people were hospitalised with respiratory problems from tear gas fired by the security forces.
In a statement, the police said some of the protesters were attacking officers with swords and slingshots stolen from an Athens weapons shop.
Firemen were called to 190 alerts around the city, putting out fires in 49 office buildings, 47 shops, 14 banks, 20 cars and three ministries, the fire department said.
Tension appeared to have dropped in Salonika to the north and other cities hit by a wave of destruction and looting Monday night -- Patras in the Peloponnese, Larissa in the centre, Canee in Crete and Ioannina in the northwest.
Several main Athens streets remained closed on Tuesday as crews laboured to remove burnt garbage cans, glass shards and stones broken from sidewalks.
Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos, who is responsible for the police, late on Monday praised the response of the security forces but the government came under concerted fire over the havoc .
"The whole country was delivered to chaos by an irresponsible government," Eleftherotypia daily said in a Tuesday editorial.
The top-selling Ta Nea newspaper added: "The police were absent from nearly all locations where vandalism occurred."
The unrest was sparked by the fatal shooting of 15-year-old boy Alexis Grigoropoulos by a police officer on Saturday.
Grigoropoulos was allegedly among a group of youths that had thrown stones at a squad car. The suspected killer and his partner have been arrested.
The boy's funeral will be held at 1300 GMT in the suburb of Palio Faliro, a police source said.
Another demonstration is scheduled on Tuesday, and a general strike called by unions before the incident will be held on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis vowed to end the unrest but a government spokesman denied reports that the government planned to declare martial law despite fresh student protests planned Tuesday.
Karamanlis called a crisis cabinet meeting on Monday night, and will hold meetings with President Karolos Papoulias and political leaders on Tuesday.
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Riot police are attacked with petrol bombs during a night of protests in central Athens. Police in Athens have made 87 arrests after youths rampaged through the city centre following a demonstration to protest a teen's fatal shooting by police, police said Tuesday.
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