Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Teenagers march to funeral of fellow teen. Greece

Sara, aged 13 years old died from carbon monoxide poisoning after her mother lit a fire in a make-shift stove in their apartment. The family who had their power cut off three months ago were trying to keep warm as temperatures dropped to near freezing in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.

The march by high school students in the city was also in commemoration of the murder of a 15 year old teenager, Alexis Grigoropoulos by a Athens police officer in 2008. The event set off a wave of protest that engulfed Greece in the worst civil violence since the overthrow of the country's military dictatorship in in 1973.

Saturday, December 07, 2013

Treated like terrorists - Greek high school students mark the fifth anniversary of the police murder of 15 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos

Greek high school students mark the fifith anniversary of the police murder of 15 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos

Priest consoles mother of dead 13 year old overcome by CO poisoning.

"A 13-year-old girl has died as the result of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, after inhaling fumes from a brazier in her home.

The girl, a Serbian national, lived with her unemployed 54-year-old mother in the Xirokrini district, in the northern city of Thessaloniki, in a home without electricity or other forms of heating."

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