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A series of rallies and protests were held on Saturday throughout Greece in commemoration of the six-year anniversary of the killing of Alexis Grigoropoulos by two policemen in 2008.Grigoropoulos was killed in the Athens district of Exarhia, and his death sparked riots both in the Greek capital and in other European cities.The protests are also in support of jailed anarchist Nikos Romanos, a friend of Grigoropoulos, who witnessed his death. Since the death of his friend, Romanos has become a symbol of rage against authority.The 21-year-old Romanos, a convicted bank robber, has sought to attend university classes. Authorities denied his request, and he has since maintained hunger strike for 27 days.
Greek police fired teargas and used a water cannon to disperse protesters who hurled petrol bombs at police and set alight bank ATMs and garbage cans in central Athens on Saturday, police said.At least 20 people have been detained.A march through central Athens to mark the sixth anniversary of the fatal police shooting of an unarmed teenager quickly turned violent Saturday, as marchers damaged store fronts and bus stations, and set fire to clothes looted from a shop.Clashes also broke out between police and demonstrators marching through the northern city of Thessaloniki. At night, police fired tear gas and stun grenades after a crowd of marchers beat up two plainclothes policemen there.No casualties were immediately reported in either city.
A 77-year-old farmer who was reported missing in northern Greece on Saturday was found dead by search teams later in the day, trapped in his tractor, which had been swept by flooding that swamped the region after two days of heavy rainfall.According to reports, the Kilkis farmer had set off in the early hours of the day to feed his animals.
Police on Saturday raided an apartment in central Athens and found more than 91,000 pieces of contraband retail products, including over 33,000 pairs of knock-off designer sunglasses and 24,000 brand labels.
A former president of the National Youth Center of Aghios Cosmas, in southern Athens, is accused of embezzling at least 800,000 euros from the organization’s coffers.The charges were brought by a prosecutor after an investigation into claims by workers at the sports center that they had not been paid for several months.
Smart farmers call in the gleaners: Volunteers are salvaging crops that supermarkets refuse to take – and giving them to food charitiesIt is estimated that 20 to 40 per cent of fruit and vegetables grown in the UK are rejected on cosmetic grounds before they even get to the shops
Major drinks companies are not doing enough to prevent widespread wine fraud and stop customers being ripped off in independent shops and restaurants, food experts have warned. The scale of wine fraud has become so great at all levels of the market that a new investigative unit of the Food Standards Agency will begin work next month on how to tackle it.The launch of the agency's £2m Food Crime Unit (FCU), set up after last year's horsemeat scandal, coincides with growing fears within the industry that as much as 20 per cent of the 1 billion litres of wine consumed annually in the UK is either fake or imported illegally.Geoff Taylor, from food and drink industry advisers Campden BRI, who has spent 30 years as a technical analyst in the alcohol industry... recommended that shoppers study the codes on wine-bottle labels, saying that "imported and bottled by W", followed by four numbers, indicates that the drink has been bottled in the UK.
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