The Greek Newspaper “Ethnos” (Nation) published a witness report by the two friends of Alexis Grigoropoulos that were next to him at the moment of his shooting on Saturday evening, December 6, 2008:
http://www.ethnos.gr/article.asp?catid=11424&subid=2&tag=8400&pubid=1988741
Alexis with his friends were preparing to go to a party for the namesday of a friend. A group of anarchists nearby threw stones at a passing police car; The car went by, but the policemen returned and fired three shots. When Alexis fell, his friends thought he had slipped. Then they saw blood and discovered the hole in his chest. By the time the ambulance came, he already had no pulse.
PS 081213: Links of up-to-date information by independent writers in Greece now:
- http://is.gd/buzs (Tsimitakis’ blog, Tsimitakis also works as reporter and editor at mainstream Greek newspaper Kathimerini)
- http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/19930 (Backround info about history of police violence in Greece by 78-year old engineer and writer Raptis)
- http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23griots (Keyword search for griots (greece-riots) at twitter, giving up-to-the-minute witness reports posted by people in the streets of Greek cities via sms to twitter)
- http://is.gd/buB8 (main page: http://stinathina.wordpress.com). Thoughts, comments, links about the current situation by artist-writer living in Athens. I am indebted to this blog for many of the links here.
- More links from stinathina of 081206f:
- http://kanenaskathenas.wordpress.com/ (The voice of someone who is political and optimistically idealistic in tone - something rather rare nowadays) see also post: http://kanenaskathenas.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/tha-mou-arese/
- http://is.gd/buFq (entry about the riots from http://www.oneearth.gr)
- A blog unrelated to the current riots, linked from stinathina, just for he heck of it: http://pausiphono.com/
PPS: The poem/letter written for Alexis Grigoropoulos by his classmates is posted here http://www.cpil.info/
PPPS: Analysis of some degree of depth and sincerity by Kostopoulos, Trimis, Psarra, Psarras at Eleftherotypia newspaper: http://www.enet.gr/online/online_fpage_text/id=29119428,34912580,42929860,57119812
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