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UAthens Wants Special Police Details

Drug users and illegal immigrants selling goods abound outside UAthens
Drug users and illegal immigrants selling counterfeit goods abound outside UAthens

After clashes between police and and illegal immigrants selling counterfeit goods spilled over into the campus and led to the school’s closing, University of Athens officials are asking for special police details to protect the institution from further violence.
Officials said that the immigrants went onto school grounds and were protected by what appeared to appear anarchists and extreme leftists who fired projectiles at police.
The government three years ago lifted the sanctuary universities had against police incursions but the authorities have been reluctant to enter the grounds for fear of spiking further violence.
Illegal immigrants spread their goods on the sidewalks outside the school on a main thoroughfare of Athens and openly sell pirated materials not far from where drug dealers and users openly operate, next to tourists and passersby near a major Metro station.
The senate of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), one of Greece’s leading educational institutions, asked for a special police detail to be assigned for its protection following the battles police and illegal street vendors who sell their wares on the sidewalk outside the Patission Street campus, the newspaper Kathimerini said.
An intensification of the clashes prompted the senate to shut down the school noting that the upheaval “has repeatedly put members of our community at risk and has seriously disrupted the smooth functioning of the university.” It called for immediate action to “ensure safety at our universities.”
The aim is for the university to reopen on March 17 though it is unclear whether the police crackdown on vendors will resume.

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