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Alexandros Grigoropoulos, the fifteen-year-old whose death at the hands of police has sparked four days of student and youth rioting across the country of Greece, is being buried today. Protests are continuing.

The two police officers who were involved in the Grigoropoulos shooting have been indicted, one of them for murder.

Greek schools are closed today in an expression of mourning for Grigoropoulos. Children, parents, and teachers held a peaceful demonstration in Athens this morning to protest his death.

Government forces have still not entered the nation’s campuses, which have been off-limits to the police and army since the fall of the Greek junta in the 1970s, and which have as a result been used as staging areas for protesters and rioters.

The tag “griots” is being used to identify material pertaining to the ongoing Greek crisis on Twitter, Flickr, and various blogs.