Unprecedented police action On Saturday afternoon (16/3), the police transferred 49 people to the campus of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
As per the information sent thesstoday.grAll 49 arrests were made during yesterday's police operation at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
They are aged 19 to 30 years. They were booked for disrupting the functioning of the service, damaging foreign property, violating the Arms and Incendiary Act. Those arrested will be taken to a competent lawyer.
How the police operation was carried out in Thessaloniki
Strong police forces from the MAT, Prevention and Repression Committee and the Thessaloniki Security Directorate entered the university campus at AUTH's Faculty of Positive Sciences shortly before 16.00 and then proceeded to make 49 arrests..
According to his statement AUTH Physics Student AssociationThe MAT's invasion of the university area took place when a platoon of MAT and EKAM appeared and an event to “reconsider the place in the school's flight tree” was going on with drinks and food.
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According to infolibre, students continued to post videos from inside the university area where admissions are held.
According to the police, the operation was carried out on a call that unidentified persons were trying to cause damage to a library under construction in the former occupied area of Biologicos.
It is worth noting that there are many schools are occupied In the context of AUTH and other universities in the country Students' reactions to establishment of private universities.
This was followed by extensive police action unity concentration For those brought to Simeo Square, the Physics Department Students' Union called for a rally and march against the police action in Kamara at 8pm.
“No lawyer came.”
AUTH professors were also present at the site and complained about the absence of a solicitor, while saying that no damage was found in the biology area.
“The Director General of Police told us that the principal informed him that there was an attempt to trespass into the school. We have not found anything like this for the organic product under complaint“, according to Mr. Dimitris Rabtakis, Professor of Civil Engineering Department of AUTH, in his reports. ERT.
«We spent an hour listening to a lawyer We were three meters away from the introduced door, and we were there for three minutes, No lawyer appeared. We ask that the MATs leave now, there is no reason for them to stay, because according to their own statements, we have seen that the process is over and the additions have been completed,” said Mr. G. Iliopoulos, a board member of the AUTH Professors Association.
Rector of AUTH: Officers can intervene authoritatively in the university area
“Government should Protects public property From the devastation caused by the actions of organized groups who use intimidation, intimidation and violence to impose their views,” AUTH Rector Saralambos Feidas told APE-MPE about the police operation at the AUTH Faculty of Arts.
“It has nothing to do with student mobilization Activities of these minority groups He asserted that it tries to impose their “unique truth” through acts of violence that maintain an insecure environment, undermine academic freedom and hamper the functioning of HEIs.
Finally, “With the current legal framework, Public authorities may intervene officially in the university areaIf they see criminal activity taking place”.
