Officer given life for boy's murder in Greek riot case

Witnesses said Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot deliberately A Greek policeman has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a schoolboy in 2008, an incident that sparked mass unrest. A court in the town of Amfissa convicted Epaminondas Korkoneas, 38, of intentionally killing 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. He was shot dead on 6 December 2008 in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarchia. Ko

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Our correspondent, Malcolm Brabant, says the chairman of the residents' association there told him he welcomed the verdict but that the district still had concerns, saying that Korkoneas's special unit still exists, has no proper training and that violence related to it continues.