Τhe occupation of Thessaloniki University's administrative building by protestors, finally ended after the head of the Thessaloniki public prosecutors' office Evangelos Mademlis ordered the police to end the seizure, arresting those responsible. According to press reports, the charges against the sit-in protestors include disturbing domestic peace, illegal violence, vandalism and 'degradation of the environment'.
Prior to the order for police intervention, Mademlis had received a letter from the university's rectors asking him to end the occupation because it was preventing the university from running and citing non-reversible damages.
At the same time, the prosecutor also asked for police to end an occupation at Macedonia University by students from the Kalamaria student housing complaining about living conditions in the student accommodation.
The protestors had taken over the building and were preventing the collection of rubbish in support of striking janitorial contract staff. Mounds of rubbish accumulated in buildings and on the campus while protestors also came to blows with academic staff and students that attempted to clean up.
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