€300,000 for Cypriot student beaten by Greek police

A GREEK court recently awarded a Cypriot student €300,000 in compensation after he was beaten by a group of police officers in 2006.

The Thessaloniki court awarded the youth the money for moral damages sustained from the attack. The injured student had said he still suffered from stress and anxiety because of the incident.

Twenty-eight-year-old Augoustinos Dimitriou was seriously injured after being beaten by a group of police officers on November 17, 2006. The attack was secretly filmed and caused outrage in Greece.

Eight officers were jailed in connection with the incident. The trial was held amid Greece’s worst protests in decades, triggered by the killing of a 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos by police in Athens.

Three other police officers and their chief were given 15-month suspended sentences for an attempt to conceal the beating.

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