Setting in Kokkinopoulos Gate NTUA it was awkward. On the green strip opposite the gate and to the right of the entrance of the Sub-Directorate of Law Enforcement and the Sub-Directorate of Law Enforcement (i.e. mat), yesterday 12 of his police officers sat down OPPI. They were dressed in green uniforms, green jockey caps and medical masks, and their long, narrow clubs were clearly visible. They lined up in two lines facing her. entrance to the Polytechnic. They talked to other policemen, about 10 people, who were outside – there were two motorcycles and at least one OPKE car – while other MAT policemen often drove by on motorcycles and cages.

In contrast, the NTUA gates were filled with banners. “Terrorism will not pass. The police don’t work in schools,” read one of them, attached to the gate and in full view of the police. This situation continued until late at night, when the student side was replenished with those who came for … support.

Greek universities are branded with a political failure to push through difficult reforms when they face opposition. This is confirmed… by the series about the establishment of the university police. What has happened every day since last Monday? About 20 members of the so-called university advocacy groups (UPPIs) show up every afternoon outside the two institutes but do not enter because they encounter students who respond to OPPI.

Greek universities are branded with a political failure to push through difficult reforms when they face opposition.

Embarrassment is evident in the leadership of the universities and in the university community, while voices are increasingly saying that the situation reduces the political significance of the project. Yesterday, at the entrances of two universities, the picture of the previous days was repeated, and students of the leftist youth parties reacted to the center of Athens by holding a rally.

In the afternoon, student associations close to the KKE held a rally in the Propylaea under the slogan “Remove the university police from the schools.” We students are fighting for education and free education.” The scene will repeat this afternoon at the gates of the EKPA (Olof Palme) campus as student associations and university workers’ unions call a meeting to coordinate their actions.

However, the events with OPPI in EKPA and NTUA have managed to pick up arrows both from those reacting to their institutionalization and from those who believe the project is faltering. “The problem of pervasive lawlessness and crime in some universities is a twisted remnant of a post-dictatorial culture — a sad precedent for the Western world, which has been hiding behind the notorious “safe haven” for years. Since the same university community could not find a solution, the decision of the unarmed OPPI was established by the current government, but on the one hand it was delayed in implementation, and on the other hand, it was not implemented as it should”, notes Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos in “K”, professor of modern history of the Peloponnesian university.

In addition to the government’s reluctance to implement the measure and the opposition’s collective refusal to recognize lawlessness as a problem, Mr. Sotiropoulos adds another factor making the undertaking difficult. “It’s about how hard it is for chancellors to become obnoxious to minority activists. However, EL.AS wasn’t particularly optimistic either, as they didn’t want security problems for a place like universities, which are quite erroneously considered not to be entirely under their responsibility.”