Ex-Minister: Greece mulled army role for riots

by (AP) 2 Dec 2010

Downtown Athens on Saturday December 6 2008 late night A former Greek interior minister says his government had considered using the armed forces during massive riots in 2008, but ultimately rejected the idea as being counter productive. Prokopis Pavlopoulos told a documentary program to be aired on state-run NET television that the measure was considered at an emergency Cabinet meeting on the worst night of the riots. The riots were sparked by the police's fatal shooting of a teenage boy. In October this year, a policeman found guilty for the boy's death was jailed for life while a second officer received a 10-year prison sentence. A DVD of the program, Reportage with Borders, was released to the Associated Press before the documentary aired later Wednesday.