Full Focus

U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Photos of the week

Our best photos from the past week.  See more 

Pictures

U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Reuters Photojournalism

Our day's top images, in-depth photo essays and offbeat slices of life. See the best of Reuters photography.  See more | Photo caption 

Members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels fly over the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan as part of the 25th annual Fleet Week celebration in New York, May 23, 2012. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY ANNIVERSARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Fleet Week

The U.S. Navy takes Manhattan for a week.  Slideshow 

Photo

The SpaceX mission

A privately owned unmanned rocket blasts off on a mission to be the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.  Slideshow 

Greek teenager was killed by ricochet: police lawyer

Related Topics

ATHENS | Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:51am EST

ATHENS (Reuters) - A ballistics report into the shooting of a Greek teenager by a policeman that sparked a tide of street violence concluded that the bullet ricocheted off something before hitting the youth, the policeman's lawyer said on Wednesday.

"The investigation shows it was a ricochet ... In the end, this was an accident," the lawyer Alexis Kougias told Reuters. The ballistics report has not yet been officially published.

The shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos has triggered five days of violence in Greece, fueled by simmering anger at the government's social and economic reforms.

(Reporting by Renee Maltezou; Editing by Richard Balmforth)

(Reporting by Daniel Flynn)
World
Comments (0)
This discussion is now closed. We welcome comments on our articles for a limited period after their publication.