Gunmen wound policeman in Athens

05/01/2009

ATHENS, Greece -- Gunmen opened fire on riot police in central Athens on Monday (January 5th), wounding one young policeman critically. The assailants reportedly fired the same Kalashnikov automatic weapons used against a van carrying police last month. Monday's attack targeted police guarding the culture ministry, in the wake of weeks of angry protests over the fatal shooting of a teenager by a Greek police officer. (ANA-MPA, SKAI, Naftemporiki, AFP, BBC, AP, DPA - 05/01/09; AP, ANA-MPA, In.news, Kathimerini - 04/01/09)