Violent protests erupted in northern Greece on Monday after police shot an adolescent in a chase.
The 16-year-old Roma boy, who’s being handled at a health facility in Thessaloniki, used to be allegedly shot by way of one officer within the head. The officer has been arrested and suspended from responsibility, in step with police in Greece’s second-largest town.
Police pursued {the teenager} after he allegedly crammed his car at a petroleum station and drove off with out paying.
The incident took place outdoor Thessaloniki sooner than morning time Monday. Officers from a bike patrol chased {the teenager}’s pickup truck after government claimed a gasoline station worker reported he had no longer paid a invoice of 20 euros.
Around 1,500 took section within the protest organised by way of left-wing and anarchist teams in central Thessaloniki.
Some smashed retail outlets and threw Molotov cocktails at police, who spoke back with tear gasoline and stun grenades.
The march ended with none arrests or accidents reported.
About 100 Roma males arrange barricades sooner than that protest. They blocked the primary street outdoor the health facility the place the boy used to be being handled, atmosphere hearth to garbage containers.
Police used stun grenades and tear gasoline to disperse the protesters throwing bottles at them outdoor the health facility.
Several hundred other folks additionally took section in a calm protest march in central Athens, the Greek capital, over the teenager’s capturing in addition to a previous incident during which a Roma guy additionally used to be shot all over a police chase.
“They shot them because they were Roma,” displayed a banner held by demonstrators in Athens.
A spokesman for Greece’s main opposition left-wing Syriza party accused the centre-right government of failing to keep excessive policing methods in check.
“Society can no longer tolerate this climate of fear created by extreme police brutality which, for trivial reasons, has threatened the life of an underage 16-year-old child,” mentioned Christos Spirtzis, the celebration spokesman for public order.
Members of the Roma neighborhood in Greece and human rights activists incessantly accuse Greek government of discriminating in opposition to Roma.
Several Roma males were fatally shot or injured lately all over confrontations with police whilst allegedly in search of to evade arrest for breaches of the regulation.
The arrested officer used to be because of seem sooner than a public prosecutor Tuesday on fees of tried manslaughter.
