Demonstrations in Athens to mark the eighth anniversary of the death of a teenage boy at the hands of Greek police turned violent on Tuesday night.<br /><br /> Around 30 people were detained or arrested, after hundreds had turned out in memory of Alexis Grigoropoulos, who was 15 when he was shot dead by police in 2008. <br /><br /> The officer who killed him was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of culpable homicide.<br /><br /> The march in the boy’s memory – and the trouble – have become an annual ritual as students and anti-establishment protesters clash with security forces. <br /><br /> At first it was peaceful: 3,000 police officers had been deployed in the Greek capital. <br /><br /> But then as protesters threw stones, fireworks, petrol bombs and set fire to cars, police responded with tear gas.<br /><br /> All this happened against a backdrop of a struggling economy – Greece is in its eighth year of recession – and ongoing high unemployment.<br /><br /> Euronews correspondent Μichalis Arampatzoglou reported from the scene:<br />“Exarcheia, the district where Alexis Grigoropoulos was murdered, was turned again into a battlefield. Security forces had forbidden the protesters from gaining access to the university and the clashes took place in streets nearby.”<br />
