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Today’s celebration for the uprising of the Polytechnic will take place without gatherings, after the relative closure of the gatherings due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Astakos” has been the center of Athens since the morning since everywhere there are MAT squads, OPKE blockades and patrols from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and State Security.
The Metro stations: Omonia, Syntagma, Panepistimio, Evangelismos and Megaron Music Hall have already been closed by order of the police, while all the trolleybus lines that pass through Patision will be modified.
On the way to Athens, they have announced that the three main labor centers of Attica (Athens, Piraeus and Lavrio – East Attica), the federations and unions, the student associations and the Association of prisoners – Exiles (1967 – Resistance, 1974) they will give a competitive “present”. OGE, EEDYE, EEDDA and other agencies. Events will also be held for the Polytechnic, with all protective measures, in Thessaloniki, Patras, Ioannina, Arta, Preveza, Lefkada, Corfu, Igoumenitsa, Larissa, Volos, Trikala, Karditsa and Chios.
According to the government plan, this year’s celebration of the Polytechnic is scheduled for … three hours and not three days, while the door of the historic Foundation was closed from 11 in the morning.
At 9 am, Ms Sakellaropoulou arrived at the National Technical University of Athens and laid a wreath at the institution’s monument.
Immediately afterwards, the President of the Republic, referring to the uprising of the Polytechnic, stressed that it was an act of maximum resistance, a symbol of political freedom.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis passed through the side door of the Polytechnic on the morning of November 17, who laid a wreath at the monument, in the context of the events in honor of the historic uprising.
The KKE “broke” the ban and held a symbolic celebration of the Polytechnic. The secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, also participated in the meeting.
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