By Penelope Galliou
“Where a school opens, a prison closes,” said the great Victor Hugo. But where a university library is demolished, what? Where a 34-year occupation ended, why can’t a library be built? Why can’t the law be enforced?
For decades these questions remain unanswered causing periodically acute political controversies and social disorders. In a law-abiding state, however, the law provides solutions to every question that arises in society, let alone to events that disrupt it.
In August 2019 it was a political decision of the government to change the law on University Asylumwith the Minister of Education Niki Kerameosto state clearly in a proposal the intention of the then newly elected government “We adhere to our original proposal by implementing our fundamental pre-election commitment: Within the premises of the universities, the public authorities to exercise all their legal responsibilities, including the intervention due to the commission of criminal acts.”
Do the disasters caused by unknown persons in the library under construction of the Department of Biology at AUTh, where the so-called occupation was housed for 34 years “Hangout in the Organic”, was not it a criminal act? Or weren’t the episodes that broke out yesterday at Aristotle with stones and bats?
This question, before being answered, triggered a very sharp one confrontation between the government and SYRIZA with fire from both sides and mutual accusations about coverage and care on the one hand and bullying and terrorism on the other hand, while the rest of the opposition “weighed” the events until late at night.
The “war” of announcements
THE battle from the streets around AUTh passed in the field of announcements, with the SYRIZA youth to give the “fire”, arguing that “Police intimidate and beat AUTh students. A week before the student elections, the government chooses to provoke images of savage repression and terrorism at the AUTh” The SYRIZA youth stated in a statement pointing to the rector, the MAT and the ministry as responsible for the situation and warning that “They will not pass them. The police have no place in the universities, therefore their plan will remain on paper” he concluded. The announcement.
However, the youth of SYRIZA are coming forward provoked the caustic comments of ND, observing how SYRIZA, which did not make a single announcement about the raid of the bahalakis with sledgehammers and the destruction of the space where a library was being built at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, came out today through its youth to report to the police, who are there to protect the area and render it to university authorities and students. “ In fact, Piraeus put the president of SYRIZA in the frame, commenting that “Mr. Tsipras, who makes statements about everything, did not speak about the images that offend, the Greek universities themselves. It is a shame that the party of the official opposition covers the destroyers “said the announcement, noting at the same time that the government is determined to put an end to lawlessness and to assist the university authorities of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki so that the space that was occupied for 34 years, becomes a place of education and culture .
Categories that Koumoundourou hurried to repel talking about provocations and set tension stressing “New Democracy, the party of lawlessness and the dissolution of public education, is trying to overcome its impasse by resorting to slander. Having the main responsibility for turning the AUTh into a battlefield, it invests in polarization and destruction. It should be more careful “.
Accusations that caused her SW response observing that SYRIZA finally issued an announcement to completely cover the spaghetti and concludes “SYRIZA’s attitude is not just a shame, it is complicity!”
University police
SYRIZA executives, however, with the main representative Nikos Filis, head of the Education Department of the official opposition party, consider it to be one vendetta of challenges aimed at “legitimizing” in the eyes of public opinion to establish a University Police.
However, since February 2021, when the law on the University Police was passed, the new body has not yet contributed to the security of the Universities but according to information something like this is estimated to happen from the summer onwards. Starting from plains of large universities, that is, in the plains of the University of Athens in Zografou, in the Polytechnic Campus of the NTUA also in Zografou and in the plains of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the role of the police will be to intervene in cases of criminal acts.
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