“Today marks fourteen years since the murder of 16-year-old student Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a police officer in the center of Athens,” SYRIZA-PS said in a statement.

“After fourteen years, another 16-year-old in Thessaloniki is rejoicing because some policeman once again decided that he needed to point a gun at his head,” he notes, commenting that “the coincidence of time reminds us that little has changed since that night in December 2008″.

“Inequality, injustice, police brutality, the persecution of young people as an “internal enemy” are links in the same chain that ends in the political leadership of the country. For three years now, the government has been encouraging state violence while ignoring its collateral damage,” emphasizes SYRIZA-PS and concludes:

“Enough. Justice everywhere. It’s a slogan for political change. It’s a request from young people who are suffocated by the political authoritarianism, class arrogance of Mr. Mitsotakis, and see the government befuddling their dreams and future.”