The Vogliamo Tutto e Per Tutti collective (We want everything for everyone) dropped banners in remembrance of the 12th year anniversary of the December uprising in 2008 concentrated in Athens. Riots began following the shooting of a 15-year-old called Alexandros Grigoropoulos on the 5th of December, the day before which massive riots began across Athens that ended in hundreds of lootings and torched buildings.
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