Fresh violence erupts in Athens

RIOT police clashed with stone-throwing youths in Athens yesterday, as violence marred a second day of demonstrations held to mark the fatal shooting of a teenager by police a year ago.

Police charged the crowd with tear gas and made nine arrests after several hundred youths, some as young as 12, hurled stones at store windows and the security forces as some 5,000 demonstrators set off towards parliament.

Another two youths were arrested for pelting a police station with stones, as thousands of students rallied to pay tribute to Alexis Grigoropoulos, who was shot dead at age 15 during mass youth riots last year, a police source said.