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Youths and police scuffle on teen's death anniversary

(6 Dec 2010) 1. Wide of street scene with fire bombs being thrown by demonstrators; fires in the street and a riot policeman's foot catching on fire; another police officer uses a fire extinguisher to put it out 2. Mid of demonstrators throwing objects at riot police 3. Tracking shot of fires burning in the street as riot police are attacked with objects 4. Wide of demonstrators with garbage bin on fire 5. Mid (moving shot) of objects being thrown at riot police, metal pole thrown at camera 6. Riot police charging towards demonstrators STORYLINE: Youths hurled rocks and petrol bombs at police on Monday during clashes at a student rally marking two years since the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy that sparked Greece's worst riots in decades. Sporadic clashes lasting more than two hours occurred in several parts of central Athens after 2,500 people marched to parliament to commemorate the death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in 2008. Protesting youths pelted police and a Finance Ministry building with rocks, oranges and flares, and smashed glass phone booths. Riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray as masked youths used smashed-up paving stones and ripped-up traffic signs to throw at police, and set fire to trash bins to use as barricades, about 300 metres (yards) from parliament and the city's main Syntagma Square. Several bank and other store fronts were smashed but the damage was not extensive, and there were no immediate reports from authorities of injuries or arrests. The 2008 riots were the worst civil unrest Greece had seen in decades, with youths rampaging through cities almost nightly for two weeks. The trouble also inspired a wave of violence by far-left and anarchist militant groups, reviving decades-old anti-establishment violence rooted in past political upheavals. Police closed roads and deployed several thousand officers around the city, but maintained a minimal presence at the site where some 15-hundred students gathered outside Athens University's main buildings. Several rallies were planned on Monday to mark the death of Grigoropoulos, shot by a policeman in the Exarchia district of the capital. The civil servants' union was marking the event with a three-hour work stoppage in Athens, while demonstrations were also being held in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The marches in Athens were to culminate in a vigil on Monday night at the site where the teenager was killed. Limited violence broke out during the first anniversary of Grigoropoulos' death, with youths clashing with riot police in Athens. In October, policeman Epaminondas Korkoneas was convicted of the teenager's murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. A second policeman was convicted of complicity and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Korkoneas had argued that Grigoropoulos was killed inadvertently by a ricochet when the policeman fired a warning shot following an earlier altercation with youths in the area. The dead teenager's mother said she was planning to set up a foundation to assist victims of mistreatment by the authorities. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...