Any student arrested to participate in violent events by destroying the spaces of university will pay the disasters. He will also lose his student status. “Bulls should be eliminated from the public university,” was yesterday’s statement by the prime minister Kyriakou Mitsotakis. At the same time, as they will be criminal offenses, it will face a stricter sentence.

According to Everydaythese are the main measures the government is considering to deal with violence in HEIs, in its wake raid made by 8 people in the afternoon of last Wednesday in a hall of Athens Law School During an event, resulting in a serious doctoral candidate who tried to repel them. However, at the same time that the government is reviewing the Security Framework in HEIs yesterday new episodes were made at Polytechnic of Zografou For a space that has been occupied for years. After his “liberation” he was completely renovated and was ready yesterday to act as a canteen.

A meeting on the re -examination of the security framework at universities took place on Saturday at the Maximos Palace under the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The meeting was attended by the Minister of Education Sofia Zacharakithe Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis and Deputy Minister of Education, responsible for higher education, Nikos Papaioannou. It was decided as soon as possible for the leadership of the Ministry of Education to present specific proposals, which will be translated into immediate initiatives. The keyword of the interventions will be ‘consequences“, Both on the criminal and disciplinary level and at the urban, for the perpetrators.

Reportedly, the leadership of the Ministry of Education will propose the following measures as a consequence of participation in violent incidents, attacks and deprivation:

• As part of the bourgeois responsibility, every student who destroys HEIs will be called upon to pay it, and if not financially independent, his family will be responsible. The account will come to the … house or the tax clearance of the AADE.

• In the context of disciplinary responsibilities, each student involved will be at risk of deletion. Of course, the penalties will be implemented. After all, Law 4957, passed in 2022 under the ministry of Niki Kerameos, in Article 198 provides for five types of penalties, with the fourth being temporarily suspended from one to 24 months and on Thursday, and stricter, the definitive deletion. However, the leaderships of HEIs are demanding to apply the law.

However, so far this has not been implemented, although there have been even judgments on students’ relatives. Indicatively, for an invasion of students in the Office of an emblematic AEI in 2023, a student was sentenced to 3 years in prison with suspension and three have received three postponements in the case. The procedure for the rendering of disciplinary penalties is the Rector’s authorities to “run”. So far they do not, and it seems, the responsibility will pass to the Ministry of Education.

Speaking to NRA yesterday, Mr. Mitsotakis said characteristically:

“There is no automated disciplinary consequences for those students who have tangled freedom of expression with organized violence.”

• In the context of criminal liability students, the penalties (likely to be suspended in their application) will be sought to become stricter grassen, with less postponements.

As for the responsibilities of the Rector’s authorities, the government will push the rectors to immediately implement security plans. The issue will also be raised at the four -day meeting of the Rector’s Synod, which is starting today, at the end of which Mrs Zacharakis is expected to attend. Rectors argue that for security plans (eg installation of cameras, alarm, etc.) funds are required.

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Yesterday, however, a new event burdened the climate. The Zografou Polytechnic was due to operate for the first day a canteen of a private employee. The site – located next to the restaurant – for about ten years was occupied and functioned as a “self -managed canteen of mechanical engineers”, as it was known.

After being “released”, the Foundation hired the site to a private person. According to reports, yesterday morning, former “owners” of the site attacked the lessee, and allegedly warned him not to operate the site during the preparation of the new canteen. Yesterday’s clash was injured in a slightly injured officer who said he would file a lawsuit. The strangers, about 20 people, during their removal, launched objects for a urban bus. The Greek Police was immediately informed of the events, forces whose forces went to the site to record the incident and identify the involved.

However, it should be emphasized that, according to reports, the NTUA Council gave its approval to expand the cameras internally to the historic complex of Patision Street and to the Gates of the Polytechnic.