Autonome miljøer i flere europeiske land mobiliserte fredag til støtte for mobben i Hellas. For første gang ble et kamera-team angrepet.

In Spain, 11 protesters were arrested and several police officers injured when clashes took place in Madrid and Barcelona.

In Copenhagen, 32 people were arrested when their protest in support of the Greek protests turned violent.

In neighbouring Turkey, about a dozen left-wing protesters daubed red paint over the front of the Greek consulate in Istanbul.

Around 150 people belonging to a Danish underground movement took to the streets, throwing bottles and paint bombs at buildings, police cars and officers. In Moscow and Rome, protesters threw petrol bombs at Greece’s embassies.

Journalists came under attack for the first time in the riots, with a Russian news crew assaulted by a mob of about 50 youths, some of them reportedly drunk.

A correspondent and a cameraman for Russian television channel NTV were injured in the confrontation, which happened while they filmed clashes in Exarchia, a crucible of student radicalism.

Politimannen som skjøt 15-åringen, Epaminondas Korkoneas, 37, sitter i varetekt, siktet for uaktsomt drap. Også kollegaen sitter i varetekt. Begge er navngitt, hvilket må antas å være en betydelig sikkerhetsrisiko.

Korkoneas hevder de to ble angrepet med brannbomber. Forsvareren sier kula som traff gutten viser tegn på å ha vært borti noe, dvs. den kan ha rikosjettert. Korkoneas er siktet for ulovlig bruk av tjenestevåpen.

Under the headline «Greece in self-destruct mode» the conservative daily newspaper Kathimerini said in an editorial: «This is a country with a state that is in a shambles, a police force in disarray, mediocre universities that serve as hotbeds of rage instead of knowledge and a shattered health care system. It is also on the brink of financial ruin.»

Greek protests spread with arrests across Europe