Today, on December 6th
2020, 12 years have passed since the murder of the 15 year-old student
Alexis Grigoropoulos, who was shot dead by the police officer Korkoneas,
under the state's responsibility. This murder didn't only shake Greece,
but peoples all around the globe.
This murder was the straw that broke the camel's back and brought about a youth uprising, since they saw their own reflection in the face of Grigoropoulos, given the fundamental crisis of the capitalist-imperialist crisis, with a future that is both uncertain and without any prospect. School and university students as well as broader parts of the Greek youth were daily protesting and organising demonstrations, take-overs and assemblies in schools and universities. In front of the beating, the tear-gas and the arrests they were more and more infuriated, because they understood more and more that Alexis Grigoropoulos' death was not an accident, but the real face of this rotting system.
