It was emphasized that in accordance with applicable law, the Greek Police’s intervention is on its own.
In clarifications, about what unfolded last Wednesday night, at its event Schoolmade the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in a statement issued earlier today, Friday.
In particular, according to the NCSR, this event was organized by students of the Department of the School of Economic and Political Sciences, with the participation of the School and teachers of the School and The attack was carried out by a group of about ten, unknown at the University of Atoms, who entered the theoretical sciences of the Hall of the Theoretical Sciences with their faces covered.
The school administration immediately informed the Greek Police about the incident, which responded but when it arrived at the building, the invaders had disappeared. “We have to point out that it is the state’s responsibility to protect public universities by groups of hoodlums who appear to have moved undisturbed in downtown Athens both before entering the university building and after their attack and exit from it,” the announcement said.
The university also notes that under current legislation, the Greek Police’s intervention is on its own in all university sites when criminal offenses are carried out, as “university spaces for the possibility of intervening the Greek Police”.
In addition, it is stated that members of the University Administration, including the Rector of the University and the Dean of the School, “from the first moment he was constantly next to the injured, from his interns to his discharge from the hospital.” “The immediate mobilization and cooperation of the University’s administration with the administration of the Ministry of Health and the” Red Cross “Hospital resulted in all the exams completed rapidly and the PhD candidate was discharged within a few hours,” he added.
According to the announcement, the university has taken all actions provided by the existing university security legislation, staffing the Security Unit and setting up the Security and Protection Committee that has drafted the Foundation’s Security Regulations and Plans. It should be noted that the NCSR has been requested “many times the assistance of the relevant Ministries on Foundation Security and Protection”, while the Administration has requested a costly funding in the state to make it possible to recruit the necessary number of guards to adequately safeguard security.
However, it is characterized as “obvious” that for phenomena related to extracurricular individuals, criminal organizations and hoodlum groups, “no university can have the means to deal with them in itself, this is the responsibility of the state”.
“In any case, the strong will of this Administration is to prevent and address all cases of violence and delinquency, without any tolerance for them wherever they come from. In collaboration with the competent authorities of the state, the University’s administration is acting with all available means of violence that has been almost eliminated at the University of Athens in recent years. It is obvious that any targeting of the Greek Public University in terms of tackling violence is without content, “the statement concludes.
