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(en) Greece - Media: Demonstration: Further delay in teen death trial
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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:58:10 +0200
A group of 400 students, leftists and anarchists held a demonstration yesterday in
Amfissa, where the trial of two policemen accused of being involved in the shooting of
teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos was due to begin yesterday. Protesters were involved in
minor scuffles with riot police. There were no reports of arrests or injuries. ---- The
long-awaited trial of the two police officers charged in connection to the fatal shooting
of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 was postponed yesterday and instead will
start tomorrow. ---- Amid tight security, lawyers, witnesses and the two suspects,
Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis, gathered yesterday at the courthouse in
Amfissa where the trial has been moved because authorities feared that anarchists or
possibly even terrorists might target proceedings if they were held in Athens.
Korkoneas has been charged with shooting the 15-year-old dead in the central Athens
neighborhood of Exarchia. Saraliotis is accused of being an accessory. The killing sparked
more than two weeks of protests and riots in Athens.
An extra 700 police officers were drafted in to protect the town, some 200 kilometers
northwest of Athens, and three checkpoints were set up on surrounding roads in a bid to
ensure that troublemakers were kept away from the court.
Yesterday’s proceedings passed off peacefully, although there were brief scuffles outside
the courthouse between anarchists and riot police.
Judge Angelita Papavassiliou decided to postpone the start of the trial until tomorrow, as
Grigoropoulos’s mother, Gina Tsalikian, was unable to attend because her 84-year-old
mother is in the hospital.
Korkoneas has employed the high-profile lawyer Alexis Kougias, who was also not present
yesterday because he was taking part in another trial.
Tsalikian is considered a key witness and is first on the list of those due to testify.
However, if she is also unable to attend tomorrow, witnesses to the shooting and the
teenager’s friends will give evidence instead.
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