Riots in Greece

Dec. 18: : A woman, background, holding a shopping bag kicks back a tear gas canister towards riot police guarding the central Athens Christmas tree.

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Dec. 18: Riot police stand in front of an exploded petrol bomb during clashes in central Athens. The protesters broke away from a peaceful rally and hurled rocks and petrol bombs at police and buildings near parliament. Police responded with tear gas. It was the latest outbreak of violence over the police's fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy.

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Dec. 18: A burning dumpster with the slogan 'No control' stands in front of rioters engulfed in tear gas at a demonstration in central Athens, Greece. The protesters broke away from a peaceful rally and hurled rocks and firebombs at police and buildings near parliament, overturned a car and set fire to trash bins.

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Dec. 18: Riot policeman is seen behind tear gas, during clashes in central Athens. The protesters broke away from a peaceful rally and hurled rocks and petrol bombs at police and buildings near parliament.

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Dec. 18: A woman reacts from the effects of tear gas thrown by police during clashes with protesters in central Athens.

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Dec. 18: A protester wearing a mask walks in front of a car that is being overturned during riots in central Athens, Greece.

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Dec. 13: Protesters, unseen, use an aim laser pointer to a riot police officer during clashes between protesters and riot police in Athens.

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Dec. 14: A laser pointer used by rioters shines through a riot policeman's visor during clashes in central Athens.

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Dec. 13: A riot police officer walks towawrds protesters during clashes with protesters in Athens.

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Dec. 13: Clashes with protesters in Athens.

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Dec. 13: Clashes with protesters in Athens.

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Dec. 13: Riot police officers shield themselves from an exploding petrol bomb during clashes with protesters in Athens.

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Dec. 13: Protesters throw a petrol bomb and flares to the riot police officers during clashes with protesters in Athens.

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Dec. 13: Riot police officers run towards their positions during clashes with protesters in Athens.

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Dec. 13: Protesters throw stones as they aim laser pointers at riot police during clashes with protesters in Athens.

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Dec. 12: A masked youth pauses in front of a car covered in flames by a petrol bomb thrown by other protesters, in central Athens. Greek youths hurled rocks and broken paving stones at riot police who were responding with volleys of tear gas in the seventh straight day of unrest over the fatal police shooting of a teenager last Saturday night.

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Dec. 12: A man on a motorcycle looks at a car covered in flames from a petrol bomb thrown by protesters, during clashes with riot police, in central Athens.

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Dec. 12: A protester throws a stone at riot police outside parliament during a demonstration in central Athens, Greece. More than 2,000 people took part in the protest against the police killing of a teenager last week, which has sparked Greece's worst rioting in decades. Hundreds of shops were damaged in the riots, which also saw cars burnt and extensive vandalizing of public property.

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Dec. 12: Greek anti riot police men detain protesters during a demonstration in central Athens, Greece. More than 2,000 people took part in the protest against the police killing of a teenager last week, which has sparked Greece's worst rioting in decades.

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Dec. 12: A marble statue is vandalized outside Athens University main building during a demonstration in central Athens, Greece.

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Dec. 12: Protesters throw a fence towards the police guarding the parliament during a demonstration in central Athens, Greece.

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Dec. 11: A police officer looks on after windows were smashed at a police station in the northern Athens suburb of Halandri.

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Dec. 11: Students throw stones at riot police outside Koridalos prison in Athens. Students pelted least six police stations with rocks in hit-and-run attacks in Athens, as sporadic violence continued following five days of rioting over the death of a teenager in a police shooting.

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Dec. 11: A police officer, left, stands by a shop that had its windows smashed in Madrid. Protesters in Spain attacked banks, shops and a police station in an apparent show of support for rioting Greeks angered by the police killing of a youth in Athens.

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Dec. 11: Bystanders read messages at a roadside shrine to teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos at the site in central Athens where he was shot dead on Saturday by police. The boy's death sparked five days of widespread rioting, followed by more limited violence on Thursday.

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Dec. 10: A rioter throws a stone at police near the Parliament building in central Athens in a fifth day of rioting in the Greek capital.

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Dec. 10: A rioter throws a rock at police near the Parliament building in central Athens.

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Dec. 10: Riot police tried to shield themselves from stones thrown by rioters outside the Parliament building in central Athens.

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Dec. 10: A Greek rioter throws a stone at police near the Parliament building in central Athens.

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Dec. 10: A riot policeman hits a protester outside the Greek Parliament in central Athens.

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Dec. 10: A riot policeman runs as protesters close in as rioting continues in central Athens.

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Dec. 9: A protester kicks a tear gas canister to riot police as riots continued for a fourth day in the Greek capital. Greek police are bracing for renewed violence at the afternoon funeral of a teenager who was shot dead by an officer Saturday.

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Dec. 9: A demonstrator throws a stone at riot police officer in central Athens Tuesday. Athens and other Greek cities were ravaged by three successive nights of rioting after police shot teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos dead.

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Dec. 9: A protester sits on the ground in front of riot police in central Athens. Athens and other Greek cities were ravaged by three successive nights of rioting after police shot teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos dead late Saturday.

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Dec. 9: A protester shouts at riot police in central Athens. Athens and other Greek cities were ravaged by three successive nights of rioting after police shot teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos dead.

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Dec. 9: A protester kicks a tear gas canister as riots continued for a fourth day in the Greek capital, Athens. Greek police are bracing for renewed violence at the afternoon funeral of a teenager who was shot dead by an officer Saturday.

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Shops set on fire by rioters are burning near Omonia Square in the center of Athens as riots went on for a third day in the Greek capital on Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. Gangs of rock-throwing youths made sporadic attacks on police stations across Athens, stoned the Interior Ministry and clashed with riot police outside Parliament on Monday in a third day of violence protesting the police shooting of a teenager. (AP Photo / Petros Giannakouris)

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Burning trash bins litter a street in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki as rioters smashed, burned and looted buildings in several Greek cities on Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. Demonstrators protested the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Athens Saturday night. The circumstances surrounding the shooting of a 15-year-old boy by a police special guard in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia are still unclear. But the death triggered extensive riots in cities around the country overnight, with youths burning shops, setting up flaming barricades across streets and torching cars. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)

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A firefighter smashes a shop window to help colleagues put out a fire started by rioters in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki as rioters smashed, burned and looted buildings in several Greek cities on Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. Demonstrators protested the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Athens Saturday night. The circumstances surrounding the shooting of a 15-year-old boy by a police special guard in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia are still unclear. But the death triggered extensive riots in cities around the country overnight, with youths burning shops, setting up flaming barricades across streets and torching cars. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)

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Rioters mingle with passersby in a central street in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, as an upended trash bins burn as rioters smashed, burned and looted buildings in several Greek cities on Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. Demonstrators protested the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Athens Saturday night. The circumstances surrounding the shooting of a 15-year-old boy by a police special guard in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia are still unclear. But the death triggered extensive riots in cities around the country overnight, with youths burning shops, setting up flaming barricades across streets and torching cars. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)

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A building is on fire in central Athens on Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. Riots continued for a third day in central Athens as protesters took on the streets to protest the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old on Saturday.(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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Dec. 8: A trash bin set on fire by rioters burns in the center of Athens.

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Dec. 8: A pedestrian passes a burned car outside the National Technical University in central Athens.

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Dec. 8: A student throws a sour orange at riot police outside the Greek parliament, central Athens.

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Dec. 8: Protesters throw stones at riot police during a student protest in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki.

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Riot police try to distinguish a car which is on fire outside the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki during clashes with protestors Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008. Riots broke out Sunday in the Greek capital as demonstrators protested the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Athens the previous night. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)

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Dec. 7: A man walks as burning garbage containers are seen on a steet, at the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Hundreds of rioters fought pitched battles with police in the cities of Athens and Thessaloniki following the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy in central Athens Saturday night. A police officer fired three shots, hitting the teenager in the chest police said.

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Dec. 7: A riot police officer stands next to a burning roadblock in central Athens. Hundreds of rioters are fighting pitched battles with police in the cities of Athens and Thessaloniki following the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy in central Athens Saturday night. According to witnesses, the shooting occurred around 9:00 p.m. when a small group of youths attacked a police patrol car. A police officer fired three shots, hitting the teenager in the chest. Witness accounts diverge widely over what happened.

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Dec. 7: A protester moves a burning bin in central Athens. Hundreds of rioters are fighting pitched battles with police in the cities of Athens and Thessaloniki following the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy in central Athens Saturday night. According to witnesses, the shooting occurred around 9:00 p.m. when a small group of youths attacked a police patrol car. A police officer fired three shots, hitting the teenager in the chest. Witness accounts diverge widely over what happened.

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Dec. 7: A burned mannequin is seen outside a damaged clothes shop as riot police officers patrol at Ermou street in central Athens, Greece.

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Dec. 7: Riot police pass by burnt out cars outside the National Technical University School of Athens.

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Dec. 7: Firefighters try to extinguish the fire of a building and a car in Monastiraki area central Athens, Greece.

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Dec. 7: Smoke rises from a burnt-out sports department store in Athens.

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