At the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki section anarchists with clubs attacked the members ΕΑΑΚ. Students were injured, constabulary detained 39 people, 6 radical were taken to hospital with injuries.
At the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Tuesday greeting May 12there was superior unrest aft a radical of section anarchists attacked students and members ΕΑΑΚ. The incidental occurred soon earlier 10:00 astatine the premises Polytechnic School, Faculty of Law And Faculty of Economic Sciencesas reported Thestival.
According to Greek media, a radical of radical wearing helmets, carrying batons, smoke bombs and different objects broke into university buildings and attacked members ΕΑΑΚ (United Independent Left Movement). The students who were successful the buildings astatine that infinitesimal tried to take screen and permission unsafe places successful a panic.
Reportedly Newsitafter the onslaught successful the infirmary “Papageorgiou” The injured students were brought in. Initially it was said astir seven woundedhowever, the infirmary aboriginal clarified that the machines Εθνικό Κέντρο Άμεσης Βοήθειας (National Emergency Assistance Center, ΕΚΑΒ) were transported six people: three men and three women aged betwixt 19 to 24 years old.
Five victims suffered insignificant injuries – abrasions and bruises. One 20 year aged student suffered a fracture successful his limb and indispensable undergo a CT scan. According to different reports, among the victims was besides mentioned 27 year old with injuries to the limbs, caput and chest. Inconsistency successful the archetypal information is simply a communal joyousness of breaking news, when everyone is moving faster than they tin comparison the aesculapian report.
39 delivered and constabulary intervention
Large forces arrived astatine the country Ελληνική Αστυνομία (Greek police, ΕΛΑΣ). According to the police, the fig of deliveries reached 39 people; their imaginable engagement successful the onslaught connected members of the student faction successful Polytechnic School of Aristotle University. This is besides reported News247.
Police forces surrounded the country of the Polytechnic School, and units ΜΑΤ entered the building. Driving connected the street Egnatia towards the halfway was temporarily blocked successful the country from the Polytechnic School to Sindrivanithe detour was carried retired crossed the street September 3.
According to section publications, the incidental is related to the confrontation that has been going connected for astir a year betwixt local anarchists and members ΕΑΑΚ. That is, we are not talking astir a random quarrel successful the corridor, but astir a protracted showdown within the left-radical environment, which was again brought to the attraction of mean students.
Before the student elections
It is particularly important that the onslaught occurred the time earlier student elections scheduled for May 13, 2026. Against this background, clashes within the university are becoming adjacent much alarming: the governmental struggle among students has again moved from slogans to batons, helmets and smoke bombs.
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) successful a statement from her enactment successful Central Macedonia, she condemned the constabulary involution astatine the university, but astatine the aforesaid clip called the incidental “provocative actions by groups that person thing to bash with students”. The enactment said these actions are being used arsenic an excuse to summation authorities unit connected the student movement.
This presumption is typical of the Greek governmental scene: 1 portion of the occupation is the onslaught by an equipped radical wrong the university, the different is the absorption of the police, which the near forces comprehend arsenic an effort to tighten power implicit universities. As a result, the mean student again finds himself betwixt two versions of the “fight for freedom”: some travel with clubs, others reason astir the permissibility of the police. Studying, apparently, is offered during escaped clip from evacuation.
Editorial comment
The university should not beryllium a territory where governmental factions ταξινόμηση things retired with batons and smoke bombs. If the state and university administrations again bounds themselves to reacting aft the fact, students will proceed to study according to a strange schedule: lectures, seminars, attack, evacuation. This is nary longer student politics, but a nonaccomplishment of basal security.
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