Anarchists Take Over University IT Centre To Prevent Vote

Athens, Greece (Photo credit: gichristof)

A group of hooded youths, reportedly self-styled anarchists, stormed the IT centre of the University of Athens at the Zografou campus earlier this week, with the aim of obstructing the holding of an electronic vote for members of the university's administrative council. According to reports, the group caused extensive damage to the equipment in the computer room and have staged a take-over of the computer room, and the polling committee is mulling extension of the voting hours. Voters who have transferred their personal access codes to their home PCs from the PCs in their offices in the university premises are able to vote, whereas those who must vote from their offices at the university cannot. Meanwhile, the Panhellenic Federation of University Professors (POSDEP) asked for a meeting with the education minister and the relevant general and special secretaries to discuss the urgent issues of the academic functionaries and researchers arising from the Middle-Term Fiscal Programme and 2013 budget recently passed by parliament that contain spending cuts in the education sector and mergers of state bodies. (AMNA)

Editor's Note - Most of these youths are from the left-wing SYRIZA party and although they do not make up for the majority, their bully tactics, anarchy and vandalism have infected Greek universities for decades.