It must be all greek people's duty to raise their voices against the unacceptable police... It's not the 1st time that cups provoke, kill or beat up teenagers (amongst others)... Enough is enough!!!! Greece mourns for Alex (the 15 year old boy who was shot dead)as well as for the way the police and goverment treats greek people.. Most cups are totally untrained and were given guns without even 1 psycic evaluation!!! The riots have every greek's support!!! We will not tolerate any more killings by the mentally ill police!!!

By effie | December 10, 2008 11:41 AM

I would agree to the point that bad training/screening of police officers led to this tragic event, but I believe it is unfair to judge police forces in general by the actions of a single psychotic policeman; and I would say Greeks are in support of the demonstrations against police butality, not the riots - there is a clear difference between the two.

By Polychronis | December 10, 2008 9:31 PM

Is not only, and not anymore about police brutality. It is economical crisis and the provocative indifference of the major political players to it.They cannot increase the salaries but they found 28 billion for the banks and 1 billion for the damaged shops.The teenagers are protesting because we the parents left them without any hope to get any happy life. The death of Alexis was one drop too many in the cup of Greek anger.

By stavros hadzistavros | December 11, 2008 6:03 PM