Police officers working in three MAT squads refused to go on guard duty, in protest at the injury of their 31-year-old colleague, in the events of Rentis.

More specifically, according to a SKAI report, the three squads were heading to the Alexandra Avenue stadium yesterday afternoon for Panathinaikos’ European game against Maccabi Haifa.

However, when they approached the police stopped the cage at the Kifisias and Alexandras junction and said that We don’t go to the stadium, we are a few meters away and if there are incidents then we will go. We are complaining about the colleague’s injury and the conditions under which we work. Since the 90s, our trade unionists have been telling us to get the police out of the stadiums.

Balaskas: “After discussions with superiors they went to the field”

“We cannot talk about a strike. A strike is the refusal to work and this is expressly prohibited by an article of the Constitution for ELAS and the army, it is not that you are fired, you go to jail” said police analyst Stavros Balaskas on Friday morning to SKAI, commenting on the policemen’s action.

“The last straw for the MAT was the injury of the colleague, their families are worried, they are afraid”, he noted and then added that “other dimirates were directed to the scene immediately”.

Regarding the squads that refused to go to the match, he stated that they went for consultations with Asterios Bartzokas and after a discussion that lasted two hours, they were transferred to the field as normal.