(6 Dec 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of demonstrators marching; objects being thrown towards riot police; riot police charging demonstrators
2. Long shot of riot police and demonstrators; smoke filling air UPSOUND tear gas shots being fired
3. Long shot of demonstrators and riot police running across street
4. Demonstrators arguing
5. Riot police throwing flash bomb UPSOUND loud shot and demonstrators shouting (Greek) "Why?"
6. Demonstrators clashing with riot police as people run away
7. Wide of banner reading (Greek) "6 December 2008 - We don't forget, We don't forgive - Revenge"
8. Wide of makeshift memorial at location where Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot
9. Mid of memorial
10. Close-up of plaque reading (Greek) "In memory of young Alexandros"
11. Mid of flowers and candles
12. Wide of people writing notes at memorial site
13. Close-up of plaque with picture of Grigoropoulos
14. Close-up of street plaques near memorial
15. Wide of riot police
STORYLINE
Protesters hurled rocks and burning garbage at police in Athens on Sunday as violence erupted during a march to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager, whose death sparked massive riots.
Police fired tear gas at scores of hooded youths in central Athens, as several thousand demonstrators marched to commemorate the death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos.
Grigoropoulos was killed by a policeman's bullet on the evening of December 6, 2008.
Within a few hours of his death, riots spread from the Greek capital to several cities across the country, with police apparently powerless to prevent youths from smashing, looting and burning stores in violence that continued for two weeks.
One year later, more than 6,000 police were deployed across greater Athens in anticipation that the anniversary of his death would turn violent.
The rioters smashed bank windows, overturned trash bins and hurled rocks and fire crackers at riot police.
Authorities said 48 people were detained for public-order offences.
At least five protesters were injured in the clashes.
Police on motorcycles chased rioters amid scenes of chaos at Athens' main Syntagma Square, with youths punching and kicking officers pushed off their bikes.
At Athens University, masked protesters broke into the building and pulled down a Greek flag, replacing it with a black-and-red anarchist banner.
Protests were held in the capital and several other Greek cities.
Violence also broke out in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, where youths threw petrol bombs at police, set fire to several cars and smashed 10 storefronts, including a Starbucks cafe. At least 20 people were detained in the northern Greek city.
Concern was heightened by reports that far-left groups and anarchists from other European countries have travelled to Greece to join the marches.
Ahead of Sunday's clashes, police had detained 160 people following minor clashes in central Athens and a raid on a cafe, where police seized sledgehammers and firebomb-making equipment.
The new Socialist government, which came to power in October and has been confronted with a surge in armed attacks by far-left and anarchist groups after last year's shooting, and had vowed a zero-tolerance approach to violence at Sunday's commemorations.
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