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.
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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.
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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 .
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