2008 Greek riots

Wann

6. Dez. 2008 – 31. Dez. 2008

Art

Unruhen

Koordinaten

38.51° N, 23.67° E

Description

riots in response to the police killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos

Cause

murder of Alexandros Grigoropulos, 2007–2008 financial crisis

Platziert: middle of the 15 places Wikidata lists.

Riots in response to the police killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos

The 2008 Greek riots started on 6 December 2008, when Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old Greek student, was killed by a special officer in Exarcheia district of central Athens. The killing of the young student by police resulted in large protests and demonstrations, which escalated to widespread rioting, with numerous rioters damaging property and engaging riot police with Molotov cocktails, stones and other obj…

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• Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Quellseite
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · nennt es „Clashes between rioters and the Hellenic Police continue near the National Technical University of Athens in Greece“Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Quellseite
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · nennt es „à partir du 7 décembre : Début des émeutes, en Grèce, à la suite de la mort d'un jeune homme, tué par un agent de Police“Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Quellseite