THE TELEGRAPH: Gangs of youths attacked banks across Athens on Saturday as the violence that has engulfed Greece looks set to enter a second week.
Greece's prime minister, Costas Karamanlis, was battling against demands that he step down after a week of violent protests. The opposition Socialist party called for him to quit and call an early election after his government failed to contain rioters protesting at the death of a teenage boy shot dead by a policeman last weekend.
After another night of violence, in which cars were torched and five banks and an office of the ruling conservative party were attacked and set on fire by mobs of youths, thousands gathered for peaceful protests yesterday in the capital and in the city of Thessaloniki to remember 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos. >>> By Nick Squires and Paul Anast in Athens| December 13, 2008
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