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Greece ‘runs out of tear gas’ during violent protests
May 12, 2011
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Greece has issued an international appeal for more tear gas after supplies ran low because police fired so much of it during a week of violent protests across the country.
Demonstrators, in a cloud of tear gas, hurl rocks at police during clashes in central Athens Photo: AP
Officers released 4,600 capsules of tear gas during confrontations in Athens and nearly a dozen other cities since riots erupted over the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old schoolboy by a policeman last Saturday.
The greek government is urgently seeking fresh supplies of tear gas from Israel and Germany, the police said.
Yesterday, a report disputed claims by lawyers for the policeman accused of killing Alexandros Grigoropoulos that the bullet hit the boy after ricocheting.
The Kathimerini newspaper said that the results of forensic tests on the bullet indicated that it had been fired directly at the teenager.
Athens Bar Association condemned the policeman’s lawyer, Alexis Kougias, for “desecrating the dead” by claiming that the Read more…
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