According to press reports,[5] two officers of a police patrol had been engaged in a minor verbal clash with a small group of people in the street, outside a shop. On driving away in their police car, they were then confronted by another group attacking their car at a street crossing. The officers were ordered to disengage and withdraw from the confrontation. However, on finding a detachment of riot police stationed in waiting in a street nearby, they decided to leave their car there and return to the scene on foot to confront the attackers. Faced with a hostile group of youths and after some exchange of verbal abuse, one of the officers (Epaminondas Korkoneas) then reportedly fired, killing one of the protesters, 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos.

Ermou Street in downtown Athens, where real estate prices are among the highest in Europe, was blackened and strewn with glass Sunday after a night of rioting following the death of a teenager in a police shooting. At least 21 shops were damaged over a three-block section of the street, off Athens' famed Syntagma Square. Many shops had their doors blown away and were left wide open, although there was no sign of looting. One block was closed early Sunday as firefighters still battled a blaze that had left a three-story emporium a blackened skeleton with a smoking roof. People strolled calmly through the damage, their shoes crunching on glass.

Extensive damage was caused by the fire set at the Intersport outlet at Monastiraki Square, which also spread to a nearby car.

Rioters clash with police in the western city of Patras.

A group of Cyprus secondary school students gathered in Paphos today to protest at the shooting of a 15-year-old student in Athens at the weekend.

Paphos police chief Costas Sotiriou said the students gathered in a square next to the town hall and very close to the police headquarters, where they began verbally abusing the police.

Mr Sotiriou said that, for no apparent reason, the students started throwing stones at the police headquarters, injuring an officer on guard duty.

Police arrested two students before the rest of the group broke up without causing further trouble.

On 8 December 2008, a group of demonstrators occupied the Greek consulate in Berlin: 30 people pushed their way into the lobby of the consulate at Wittenbergplatz (not the Greek embassy in Berlin, located to the east of the city) in western Berlin at around 9:40 a.m. local time. One of the demonstrators told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur that the demonstration was in protest against a Greek state that was responsible for the death of the teenager. A consulate spokesman said that there were no plans of having the protesters removed by the German police. The occupation ultimately ended peacefully.

Students occupy the Athens University of Economics and Business to protest the police shooting of a 15 year old protestor.

And last night, some 80 youths marched from Eleftheria Square in Nicosia to the Greek embassy.

The crowd was kept at bay by barbed wire set up around the front of the building, as police and riot squad members were deployed around the perimeter as a precaution.

After taunting the police for a little over an hour and throwing stones and fruit, the demonstrators withdrew from the scene. No incidents were reported.

In Larnaca, some 200 students from the Ayios Lazaros technical school marched to the district’s police headquarters, chanting slogans and, according to witnesses, hurling abuse at police.

Donning balaclavas and wielding iron bars, the more radical among the group began shouting “Police are murderers” and pelting the police station with oranges as officers watched on.

The crowd dispersed around noon .

Seldom do Greek academics attain the heroic status that was bestowed last week on Christos Kittas, an eminent professor of pathology and rector of Athens University.

More comfortable in front of a whiteboard Kittas, a wiry figure with grey hair and a silver beard, found himself on the front line in what looked like a war zone.

From his palatial office on the first floor of the university, he organised a “human chain” of colleagues to defend the historic building from being ransacked in Greece’s worst street violence in decades.

Greek protesters unleashed a wave of violence on Saturday night, led by the firebombing of an Athens police station moments after silent vigils for a teenager killed one week ago wound down. Around 100 hooded youths firebombed a station next to the Exarchia district where 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos died from a police bullet last Saturday night, with tear gas being fired in reply and officers in pursuit as the gang fled into dimly lit side streets.

Large groups of demonstrators gathered in front of the Greek Parliament in central Athens, as well as in front of the White Tower of Thessaloniki in Thesaloniki wearing white T-shirts and holding flowers to make a peaceful protest, to honour the teenager who was killed.