A protest through central Athens to mark the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of an unarmed teenager quickly turned violent as marchers damaged shopfronts and bus stations and set fire to looted clothes.

A protest through central Athens to mark the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of an unarmed teenager quickly turned violent as marchers damaged shopfronts and bus stations and set fire to looted clothes.

A GREEK policeman was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for the shooting of a teenager in central Athens that sparked nationwide riots in 2008.

A Greek policeman was today convicted of murdering a teenager whose death in central Athens sparked nationwide riots in 2008.