Papoulias plea for peaceful remembrance of pupil Grigoropoulos
President Karolos Papoulias, in a message on Friday referring to 15-year-old pupil Alexis Grigoropoulos' killing by a police officer on December 6, 2008, during an incident in the Exarhia district of Athens, said that "Alexis Grigoropoulos' murder was not only a heinous act. It was a lesson to all of us on where arbitrariness may lead".
Papoulias noted "the action and its dimensions do not lessen and are not forgotten in the subconscious of society, and particularly the youth".
"I once again express my support to Grigoropoulos' parents and friends. I once again express my faith in and guilt towards the young generation, to which we owe the ensurance of a more just society. I hope that Alexis' memory will be commemorated peacefully, because that is the least we owe him," the President concluded.