Riots brook out yesterday in several Greek cities after the police shot dead a teenage boy in Athens in what is seen as the worst civil chaos in Greece in years. Riots erupted at a late hour in the capital Athens when the police fired at two young people who threw petrol bombs at them, burnt tires and smashed windows. The violence spread quickly to Greece's second largest city and to other towns in the north. Riots also spread to cities in the two islands of Crete and Corfu, urging Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos to offer his resignation. But an interior ministry spokeswoman said the prime minister rejected the resignation. An Interior Ministry statement said two police officers have been arrested for interrogation regarding the incident. According to the statement, the officers said their patrol car had been attacked by 30 youths throwing stones and other objects. When they attempted to arrest the youths, they were attacked again and one of the officers fired three shots, killing the boy, the statement said.
