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Police forces blocked the AUTh, but then withdrew, as teachers, parliamentarians and students rushed to the scene. Five arrests were made.
In an attempt to intervene in the Rectory of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the police forces proceeded on Monday night.
Specifically, shortly before 9:00 pm, a police cage and a MAT squad blocked the entrance to the Rector’s Office at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. At the same time, the police blocked the entrances to the University. However, around 10:30 p.m., the police forces left Ethnikis Aminis Street, where the AUTh entrance is located, and the road was reopened to traffic.
It is noted that when the police forces left, professors from the institution and dozens of students had gathered inside and outside the University. Among other things, members of the Senate and other professors from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as some 50 students, rushed out of the Rectorate (which is under occupation). In addition, the SYRIZA deputies (K. Notopoulou, Dora Avgeri, Giannis Amanatidis) went to the courtyard of the Rectory.
In any case, the police surprise to break the occupation failed. The police forces withdrew at a time when the number of supporters in the Plaza del Rector was increasing. Of course, doubts remain as to whether the operation is a total cancellation due to the wave of solidarity or whether the police are just waiting and looking for the right moment.
What preceded
According to the testimonies of the students, the police forces persecuted the students who did not participate in the occupation and finally made five arrests.
It is recalled that within the Rectory there are a sufficient number of students (about 80) who participate in the occupation.
In any case, there is a large police climate in Thessaloniki. In addition to the AUTh, the police forces came out of the Theater Department, which is located outside the university campus on Egnatia Street and which is also under occupation.
Below is a video with statements from students participating in the occupation (source: infolibre):
Announcement of AUTh teachers
We, the undersigned, appeal to the collective bodies of AUTh. (Senate, ESDEP, Employees Association, Student Associations) to take the initiative to convene tomorrow morning a joint assembly in front of the Administration building, in order to examine the problem facing our University due to the prolonged occupation, with the consequent suspension of the administrative and its financial functions.
We express our disagreement with the recent law, which we consider responsible for unleashing student mobilizations, at a time when the country faces the pandemic. We declare that we oppose any new police operation within the University, which will irreparably damage its prestige. We believe, on the contrary, that in these critical hours it is possible to solve the problem through academic means.
Mavroskoufis Dimitris, Zarotiadis Grigoris, Michailidis Athanasios, Konstantinidis Damianos, Aris Stylianou.
Statement by Christos Spirtzis
(Responsible for Citizen Protection of SYRIZA-PS)
Before Alector cries…. The auras that were gradually transferred from Athens to Thessaloniki, with the body of the praetorian Mitsotakis, Chrysochoidis, are operating at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, to confront the occupation of students against the Chrysochoidis-Keramean law.
After Nea Smyrni, at AUTh again the focus on the youth of our country.
The praetorian bodies of Messrs. Mitsotaki Chrysochoidis have excluded all schools in Thessaloniki, even those that are off the University campus.
We reiterate that Mr. Chrysochoidis participated today in Thessaloniki in a meeting whose exact subject no one knows.
The mystery was recently solved. Distraction with an attack on the AUTh and an operation of terror, repression and a manifestation of supposedly general disorder in our youth.
At a time when hundreds of our fellow citizens due to insufficient government policy to deal with the health crisis cannot find an ICU bed in Athens,
At a time when we are the only European country with a five-month lockdown for the third wave, with increasing results,
At a time when our economy was returned to a deep recession, with incredible consequences for Greek society,
At a time when national problems are at a critical juncture,
Messrs. Mitsotakis and Chrysochoidis play their own violin.
Fatal and incapable of facing the serious problems of Greek society, they terrify.
We call on the government to stop planning for distractions and to constantly invest in artificial escalation and a climate of division, so that it does not hide its dead ends in the pandemic and the economy.
We ask you to abandon the slippery slope of society and the undemocratic descent of violence.
Comment from the regional organization AEI Thes / niki of KNE
by the siege of the AUTh by police forces
The siege of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki by a large number of police forces with the aim of evacuating the occupation of the rectory carried out by student associations is unacceptable and absolutely reprehensible. The police don’t have a job at the universities! Universities belong to students and their needs.
We students have fair demands: to open our schools now with all the necessary protection measures, to become students again, not to apply an unjust law of Kerameos – Chrysochoidis.
The government is investing in repression and terrorism to silence the organized student movement. But we students have already shown that repression not only does not scare us, it strengthens our struggle.
Immediately withdraw all police forces around the AUTH!
Statement by Giannis Delis (KKE MP)
Tonight the police made a new attempt to invade AUTh’s rectory.
The reaction of the employees, the students, the professors, many of the university professors, was immediate and in the end, apparently, this invasion was avoided.
Of course, we do not believe that the government will easily give up and give up its attempt to impose “law and order” as it means at the university and to implement a law that is unacceptable in every way. A law that raises class barriers for the children of popular families and further commercializes the good of a college education.
It is true that the government will not stop implementing its anti-popular policy at all levels, in the workplace, in insurance, in all issues that have to do with the lives of popular families and their children.
Of course, this policy is accompanied by the suppression of which the doses are constantly increasing as the intensity of the anti-popular policy increases.
People should not and will not stand idly by. Organized, through its movement, through its actors, mainly through its social alliance, which must deepen and expand even more, it is certain that it will be able to face this effort of the ND government and finally pave the way for the life that he and his children deserve. .
KKE announcement (ml)
“Hands off the youth – Hands off the nursing home – The nursing home belongs to all people!”
The KO Thessaloniki of the KKE (ml) unequivocally denounces the operation of the police forces that, by order of the Minister of Police and the government of ND, surrounded the AUTh with the obvious objective of occupying the Rectorate is located off campus on Egnatia street and that it is also under occupation.
The “signal” for the new terrorist operation was given by today’s meeting chaired by Chrysochoidis, who, among other things, referring to the occupation of the Rectorate, boldly affirmed “those who obstruct the functioning of the Universities do not exercise a legal right.” “and that” universities are autonomous “, they are not ungovernable, nor are they unprotected against illegality”!
The police forces, taking advantage of the curfew imposed by an unprecedented police state in the city center, went out to pursue students on and around campus and made arrests.
It is obvious that they want to terrorize the students and their struggles, it is obvious that they have noticed the tireless struggle of the students that aims to overthrow the black law “Kerameos – Chrysochoidis” and the special massification of this struggle in the city of Thessaloniki.
The withdrawal of the repressive forces is only a temporary maneuver to re-promote and more vigorously the politics of fascism, which aims to protect the system from the reactions and struggles of barbaric politics against the people and the youth. A policy that not only leaves you unprotected in the pandemic, but uses it to abolish fundamental labor and popular rights. This is demonstrated by the brutal repression of the recent demonstrations, the praetorian forest of the system against the inhabitants of Nea Smyrni!
Students and youth will continue and strengthen their fight for their rights to education, employment, health and freedoms.
- ALL IN THE FIGHT FOR THE RETURN OF THE BLACK LAW “KERAMEOS- CHRYSOCHOIDI”
- YOUTH STRUGGLE FOR STUDIES – EMPLOYMENT – HEALTH – FREEDOM IS FAIR!
- THE POLICE ARE OUT OF SCHOOLS! TERRORISM WILL NOT PASS, THE PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE WILL BREAK IT!
- EVERYONE IN THE TOMORROW PROTESTS!
