There is friction and violence in the streets of Athens following the rally to commemorate the shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos by a policeman at Valtetsiou Street in Exarhia in 2008. Protestors broke shop windows and bank windows, whereas a group of protestors also set garbage cans on fire. There was also combat between the Riot police and protestors at Syntagma Square and upmarket Voukourestiou Street.

A group of protestors moving towards Exarhia set fire in the streets while being chased by the police.

Shortly before 8 a.m. on Saturday, the protest march that had begun at 6 p.m. at the Propylaia ended. The protest march through Panepistimiou and Stadiou Streets towards Omonoia was to commemorate the death of the dead teen but also to rally support to hunger striker Nikos Romanos who has not eaten for 27 days to exert pressure on the government to approve his education furlough so he can study at a Technical Education Institute.

Protesters managed to break into clothes, threw out clothing onto the streets and torched the area.

Shortly after 7.30 p.m. the rally reached Syntagma Square while a small group of protestors began to throw rocks and Molotov cocktails at the riot police.

At one point at Exarhia, a small group of protestors covered the road in oil, from which a policeman on a motorbike skidded.

There are reports that people threw rocks at policemen from balconies at Exarhia.

Another group of protestors barricaded themselves into the National Polytechnic.