Teen’s Killing Exposes Greece’s Rising Youth Gang Violence

A 15-year-old boy was killed in a violent clash in the Athens suburb of Kallithea, police said, in a case that has sharpened concern over escalating youth gang violence across Greece. Investigators said the fatal confrontation was linked to a turf dispute over control of a local public square.  The killing came just four days after about 40 armed youths, aged 14 to 17, attacked other teenagers in Peristeri’s Makrygianni Square with knives, clubs and brass knuckles. The back-to-back incidents ...

By NEWSROOM IEFIMERIDA.GR