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Al Jazeera
Moira Lavelle

Police killing puts spotlight on anti-Roma racism in Greece

The Sampanis family builds a memorial on the side of the road where Nikos Sampanis was killed by police four months earlier [File: Moira Lavelle/Al Jazeera]

Athens, Greece – On the morning of February 7, the Sampanis family gathered on a street corner in Perama, Athens, to build a small memorial on the side of the road where 18-year-old Nikos Sampanis had been killed by police four months earlier.

Nikos’ father and uncle stacked two cement blocks, covered them with white plaster, and fixed a small church on top. His elder sister Katerina sat beside them, crying, holding the hand of another brother, Georgos.

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