Grigoropoulos trial in Amfissa
The trial of the two policemen implicated in the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos last December will take place in Amfissa, central Greece, after Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes rejected an appeal from the teenager’s mother for the case to be heard in Athens. Authorities moved the trial to Amfissa, northwest of the capital, amid fears about the safety of the two officers and concern about general disorder. However, Grigoropoulos’s mother, Gina Tsakalian, claimed that the location of the trial would make it difficult for the witnesses, who are mostly teenagers as well, to attend and give evidence. But Tentes decided that the risk of holding the trial at a specially constructed courtroom in Korydallos Prison, where members of November 17 were tried, was too great. The trial of of Epaminondas Korkoneas, who shot Grigoropoulos, and Vassilis Saraliotis, who had been on duty with Korkoneas at the time, is due to begin on December 15.
