Calm returns to Athens after riot

Calm has returned to the Greek capital, Athens, after eight consecutive days of rioting sparked by the shooting dead by police of a 15-year-old boy. At the police station where the officer charged with the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos was based, people threw petrol bombs on Saturday night. A protest outside the police station is designated for Monday. Although things have calmed down a poll suggests most people think the riots are a social uprising, as opposed to just the reaction to a shooting. The poll concludes that sixty per cent of those questioned by the Kathimerini newspaper rejected the assertion that the disturbances have been merely a series of co-ordinated attacks by a small hard core of anarchists. Some 300 people staged a peaceful vigil at the site of the boy's death.