The Minister of Education, Sofia Zacharakis, spoke about the safety of university institutions on the occasion of the latest incidents of violence and the attack on the Polytechnic.

“We all need to make a chain around the Greek public university that we support with all our might to reduce and eliminate this kind of incidents. Every law remains to be implemented to see exactly what can be left to improve. These episodes do not mean that they are done only by students. Some may be students and the rest may be “extracurricular”. What we will surely strengthen is the current provision of how one will lose the student’s status, when it is proven through the judicial process, that he has participated in episodes, “he said in the ERTNEWS Newsroom show.

He then added:

“In recent years these events have been reduced. But even if an incident happens, we must have taken the measures to prevent. We no longer have space occupation. This has been done with very important police interventions (…) I am in favor of controlled entry, where this is possible as in many European and international university institutions. Every university, every school and every building has a peculiarity. Why not start from doing something coordinated in a solid and absolute way to implement the law so everyone knows exactly what is relevant to them? “

“Anyone who breaks public property to pay for it – Freedom is also security”

“Someone who is paying for material damage, just as it is with the destruction of public property. Those who touch bourgeois, administrative, criminal measures are currently valued so that we can make them even stricter. So these are left to be captured with complete clarity so that whatever is in the law becomes even more stringent in terms of the performance of consequences and responsibilities, so that one knows that university space is not the space to exercise their own revolutionary gymnastics. There is the place where people have been working for many years to enter the university, to finish their studies within the planned time and to feel safe. Freedom is security. Freedom is also the context, so that the true essence of the university process can be exercised. It is the ideal time to form these alliances that are necessary for the application, “she said, among other things.

Miscarriage

On miscarriages, the minister stressed: “Obviously the measure of miscarriages remains. This measure does not stop. Along with the experts, however, we will look at a framework on how a child can have an opportunity to do a voluntary job. More, we focus on the logic of social offering (…) These children need opportunities for them to offer. The disciplinary part remains because there is the question of justice. “

Ms Zacharakis then emphasized that the measure for mobile phones in schools remains in full power.