(12 Dec 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Protester putting petrol bomb through car window
2. Wide of street with car on fire
3. Close-up of car on fire
4. People looking at car on fire
5. Protesters standing around on street
6. Wide of riot police moving around blazing car, fire engine arrives
7. Firefighters deal with fire, pans to protesters throwing petrol bombs, tear gas canister going off
8. Wide of riot police walking down street
9. Protesters throwing stones
10. Wide of riot police in street as protests run at them throwing stones, petrol bomb lands near different group of riot police
11. Mid of street burning where petrol bomb landed, tear gas canister goes off
12. Protester throws petrol bomb near riot police, ambulance passes in background, tear gas canister goes off
STORYLINE
Greek youths hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at riot police in Athens on Friday, who responded with stun grenades and tear gas.
Terrified workers in banks along Athens' central Syntagma Square watched in fear as protesters shattered windows just replaced days ago after being damaged in the worst riots Greece has experienced in decades.
Protesters also smashed their way into the main branch of the National Bank of Greece, sending employees fleeing in panic on Friday.
One protester walked up to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside Parliament and threw a black-and-red anarchist flag at it.
Despite seven straight days of unrest, Greece's Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, whose party has only a single seat majority in parliament, explicitly rejected mounting calls for him to resign and call early elections.
The riots broke out within hours of the police shooting death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos death last Saturday, and have since expanded to encompass general anger over economic hardship.
Hundreds of stores and dozens of cars have been destroyed or damaged in cities across the country.
Protesters, occupying high schools and universities, are demanding a reversal of public spending cuts, the resignation of the country's Interior Minister, and the release from custody of arrested riot suspects.
About 100 people have been arrested during the riots and 70 injured.
Authorities said protesters also briefly occupied a private Athens radio station on Friday and read a statement on the air. A municipal building in the northwestern city of Ioannina were also occupied.
The two police officers involved in the shooting have been jailed pending trial, one for murder and the other as an accomplice. They claim they had been attacked by a group of youths and that one of the officers had fired warning shots, but witnesses have disputed the claim.
The unrest has also spilled over into other European cities, raising concerns the clashes could be a trigger for opponents of globalisation, disaffected youth and others outraged by the continent's economic turmoil and soaring unemployment.
Students and other protest groups say they will hold daily marches and roadblocks in the capital next week.
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