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Greek teenager was killed by ricochet: police lawyer

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.

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"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)
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