GREECE: Officer guilty of boy's murder that sparked Greek riots
01 October 2010
GREECE:
Officer guilty of boy's murder that sparked Greek riots (BBC News, link): "
Witnesses said Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot deliberately A police officer in Greece has been found guilty of murdering a schoolboy during protests in 2008, in a case that sparked weeks of rioting. A court in the town of Amfissa convicted Epaminondas Korkoneas, 38, of the culpable homicide of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. He was shot dead during anti-government protests on 6 December 2008 in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarchia."