Update about the student protests in Athens and Thessaloniki

by greek students Saturday, Mar. 10, 2007 at 12:22 AM

Latest report about the brutal and provocative actions of the police in Athens and Thessaloniki. Please translate & circulate

Reports from the Athens police Heardquarters say that all of the 62 temporary detainees will be considered as arrestees. There is a widespread terror imposed on the arrestees, even 1st-year undergraduate girls have been accused for social disturbance. 45 people had to go to the hospital since they were injured. The police and the Public Prosecutor are very provocative, not allowing the arrestees to meet their lawyers. Also, 5 injured detainees, students in Chemical Engineering, are not allowed to go to the hospital.

Riots spread in Thessaloniki city as well, followin a spontaneous solidarity march that took place, in protest for the repression that had taken place in Athens. Currently the riot police is spraying tear gas towards the university and the students in the Thessaloniki Polytechnic Faculty are suffering. The student radio 1431AM is reporting that the gas is everywhere in the corridors. Hundreds of students are trying to escape the gas, some of them into rooms or on the roof.

The radios speakers say they are confident we are facing the first implications of the new legislation, that has led to dictatorship. Just now they report that they gathered plastic bullets from the Faculty's yard.

Original: Update about the student protests in Athens and Thessaloniki