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The controversy over the course of the Polytechnic culminates, just three days after the anniversary of November 17.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said that the memory of the Polytechnic this year should be honored with a simple ceremony, while calling on the parties not to participate in marches and rallies, or to encourage citizens to take to the streets. . “The government will not allow such behavior,” said Mr. Mitsotakis, noting that in order to protect public health, the October 28 anniversary celebrations were also not held.
The message sent by the Minister of Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, was in a strict tone, since he has been warning for days that there will be no march by the Polytechnic. Chrysochoidis even contacted party leaders by phone, explaining that no marches or rallies will be allowed, but that small party delegations will have the opportunity to lay wreaths at noon on Tuesday after consulting with police.
The parties that will participate in the Polytechnic course
At the same time, however, many organizations and parties are planning their mobilizations for the Anniversary of the Polytechnic. The first conflict with the government arose from MERA25, with Giannis Varoufakis to affirm that Michalis Chrysochoidis announced the arrest of the party deputies, “which is equivalent to a pre-announcement of circumvention of the Constitution.”
Meanwhile, the general secretary of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoumbas He pointed out, in an interview with ERT, that the course for the Polytechnic “for 47 years, every year and under any circumstance, was not a memorial or the placement of crowns, but a competitive claim.” Mr. Koutsoubas stressed that “this year does not have this character, we cannot change the content.” “The Polytechnic has never been a government celebration.”
At the time, the general secretary of the KKE said that “this is what they are doing again this year under special circumstances. The conditions imposed by the health authorities are that all measures must be strictly observed when people walk through the streets or squares. With the use of masks, with antiseptics, with distances and of course with the people who should be there and we call on vulnerable or sick groups not to be there, this has been done with a general confinement, and we have already verified it , in fact. “As KKE, we receive congratulations on how similar events were organized,” he emphasized.
Distances from SYRIZA
In the “field” of SYRIZA it seems that they choose to keep their distance from the events of this year by the uprising of the Polytechnic. Indicative was the statement made by the newspaper “Epochi” Nassos Iliopoulos, who stressed that “we do not accept prohibitions but in any case institutions and organizations must honor the Polytechnic with total empathy for the special conditions in which we find ourselves today and we cannot underestimate nor do what we cannot see. ”
Iliopoulos added that a delegation from SYRIZA will lay a wreath at the Polytechnic, as well as at the EAT-ESA, from where it will go to the US embassy. “We believe that in this way we honor the uprising of the Greek youth and people, observing all necessary protection measures,” he added.
It is recalled that Alexis Tsipras, regarding the Polytechnic, has stated that “at a time when the basic rule that we all must follow is distance, the basic rule that we all must follow is not to concentrate too much even in open spaces”
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Many calls from the Polytechnic
Meanwhile, many leftist organizations, unions and anarchist groups have already made calls for the Polytechnic March in Athena. ANTARSYA, OKDE, SSP, the Anarchist Political Organization (APO) and other groups convene a pre-assembly in Athens on the anniversary day, at 2:00 p.m., in Klafthmonos square.
At the same time, student organizations, anti-authoritarian, leftist organizations are calling for mobilizations and in Thessaloniki. The co-capital calls begin at 15:30 and refer to the AUTh Technical University.
Meetings and marches have been planned by the Polytechnic in other cities of the country, such as Marble, τα Chania, the Rethymno, the Kavala, the Patras, τα Ioannina, the Agrinio and the Komotini.
Draconian measures of EL.AS -4,000 police, drones, helicopters in the streets
Draconian measures are taken at the EL.AS “headquarters” for the Polytechnic day. The initial “crash test” took place at the NTUA and in Zografou, where police carried out raids and arrests.
As for next Tuesday, November 17, the first action will be the “sealing” of the NTUA -which is already guarded by powerful forces- and the issuance of orders prohibiting concentrations and marches for reasons of protection of public health, in Athens and Thessaloniki. . Patrols will be carried out in all the “dreaded” institutions, such as the former ASOEE, in the wider area of Exarcheia and in the surroundings of the Archaeological Museum.
According to police sources, 4,000 policemen, prosecutors and the “Aiandes” (water-launching vehicles) will be on the streets on Tuesday, while drones and helicopters will watch from the air. The order to be given to the police will initially be to warn the protesters, asking them to disperse … in silence. However, in the event of non-compliance, the officers will call for the immediate deterrence of demonstrations and marches, extraditions and arrests.
Triple … fines for protesters
One of the scenarios under consideration, according to information from ALPHA, is imposing up to … triple fines on protesters. The first, according to the same source, will be for violation of the prohibition of meetings for reasons of protection of public health (300 euros), the second for violation of the order of the Hellenic Police Headquarters to prohibit meetings (300 euros) and the third – for those who do not keep it – for not using a mask (also 300 euros). In short, there is a case for some protesters to be fined 900 euros.
THE Theodoros ChronopoulosThe Hellenic Police spokesman, in statements to ALPHA, said that “the conditions created by the pandemic and the global health crisis have led us to ban concentrations, since it is the worst for the spread of the coronavirus. Meetings and marches are prohibited. We do not want to conflict. We will try to persuade them with persuasion, advice and dialogue. “For the first time, high-ranking officials will be on the ground and will be accompanied by prosecutors, in order to solve any problems that arise.”
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