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Some 6,000 police officers on the ground, helicopters and drones in the air, will be deployed in Athens at the anniversary of the Polytechnic School Students’ Uprising on November 17. The operational police plan includes, among other, the guarding of universities, government buildings and embassies. At the same time, there …

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In a televised message on Monday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that “the decision to not hold mass gathering and marches is imposed solely for reasons of protecting public health.” He invited the leaders of political parties to go together with the President of the Hellenic Republic to the Polytechnic School with …

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Greek Police took a total of 92 people for questioning at the Police Directorate in Athens on Friday ahead of the celebrations for the anniversary of the students Uprising that are banned this year due to the coronavirus. 68 mostly probably students were taken from the Polytechnic School in downtown …

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Police in Athens has detained three suspected neo-Nazis who were trying to hang two flags with swastikas at the building of the Athens Polytechnic School that will celebrate the anniversary of the Students’ Uprising against the junta, next week. The incident reportedly took place on Monday night. The two men …

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There is quite some dispute nowadays in Greece whether about the celebrations to commemorate the 39th Anniversary of Students’ Uprising against the military dictatorship at Polytechnic University in 1973.  In a society suffering from harsh austerity measures,  it is obvious that there is criticism about the so-called “Polytechnio Generation”: students …

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