Episodes unfold at the School of Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where numerous MAT forces have entered the university, resulting in clashes with students of the anti-authoritarian space who guarded the former occupation “Hangout in the Biological” in order to stop work .
At the same time, a protest by the student associations outside the Rectorate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki was violently and unprovokedly dispersed by the MAT, while the students denounced their brutal beating because they demanded the removal of the repressive forces from the asylum area. In fact, at least three of their colleagues have been taken to hospital with injuries after contact with chemicals by the police, as they complain. The students asked to meet with the rector’s authorities and to intervene in the extraordinary meeting of the AUTh Senate.
KNE: “Organized plan of the government against the new generation in progress”
“The KNE complains that an organized plan of the government and provocative groups is underway, which has nothing to do with the students, their clubs and their struggles and acts only as the best sponsors of the repression, slander and attack of the government. against the new generation.
This plan evolved with the unacceptable action of the invasion of the armed police forces in the School of Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. At a time when classes were being held and thousands of students and teachers were on campus, they got to the point of using chemicals and flash grenades inside the University’s spaces and corridors!
It is obvious that this is how the government imagines the “modern, European University”, open to repression, terrorism and degradation, closed to education, student care, the needs of students.
They will find us opposite them! The students, strengthening their student associations, will “rip” the plans of intensity of repression and dissolution of their studies. “Universities to become real places of education and culture, struggle and claiming fair demands for the University of our future”, he states in the announcement issued by KNE on the occasion of the events.
MERA25: “The responsibilities of the Government and the Rector’s Office are huge for the attack of MAT on students”
“The images from the MAT attack on students inside the university space at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki are unthinkable and shameful. We have seen students drowning in chemicals on campus, being beaten and arrested, only in regimes like those of Mr. Erdogan. The responsibilities of the Government of Mr. Mitsotakis, of the Prime Minister himself, together with the unprosecuted Ministers of Education and the so-called “Citizen Protection”, but also of the Rector, who turns his back on the dirty government “work” of extreme violence and repression within the university , are huge and criminal.
Withdraw the MAT from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki here and now.
To give the space of the public university to the students and the academic community. Release all those arrested.
“We call on the Government to stop undermining public universities in order to nurture its extreme, authoritarian and anti-democratic ideologies,” he said in a statement on today’s images of shame at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
