Tension prevailed during the protest of secondary school students in downtown Athens on Monday morning and riot police could not resist from beating the teenager school children with clubs. The tension started when the police got the order to ‘clean’ the main streets in front of the Greek Parliament. The students had started a sit-in protest and refused to leave the area.
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The falling batons of riot police seemed to be the only way to ‘clean’ the streets form students and reinstall the traffic. The polcie clubs fell with violence on the backs and heads of the students.
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Students chanted slogans against the police and also “Bread, Education, Freedom”. Some stones were hurled from the protesters’ side, while some students hit the policemen’s shields.
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Police went so far and lifted the sitting students in order to remove them from the area. One 17-year-old was detained.
Secondary school students from the south suburbs of Athens had gathered outside the Parliament to protest books and teachers shortages in schools.
Currently 650 schools are ‘occupied’ by students.
In the school year 2011 A.A. (After Austerity) the Ministry of Education failied to provide primary and secondary school children with books and supplied them with photocopies and DVDs with only the first chapters of the textbooks.
