Violent Protests in Athens: Greeces Young Anarchists ( Part 2)

Subscribe to VICE News here: On December 6, protests in Athens and other Greek cities broke out on the sixth anniversary of the killing of 15yearold Alexis Grigoropoulos, who was shot in 2008 by a policeman in the district of Exarcheia, a neighborhood in central Athens known as the spiritual home of anarchists. Annual demonstrations have been organized by many different leftist groups, students, and particularly anarchists, to commemorate the teen s killing and to protest against police violence. The protests often culminate in clashes between protestors and police. VICE News attended the 2014 demonstrations, which this year had an additional cause: to support 21yearold Nikos Romanos, who put himself on hunger strike after authorities prevented him from attending university while in prison a contravention of Greek law. Romanos, a selfdeclared anarchist and the best friend of Grigoropoulos, is behind bars for armed robbery. A few days after the protests, Romanos