It was shortly before 13:30 on Thursday when two young adult men jumped through the bars of the large complex. V which contains four Evosmos municipality schools in Thessaloniki And were sent to the halls of the 2nd EPAL. “After passing by the teacher who was on duty at that time, they went to the room where the head teacher was teaching,” the deputy mayor for education of the municipality describes K. Fragrant-Cordelio, George Stavridis and continues: “One opened the door, and the other pushed it hard towards the teacher, slightly injuring her. 100 and 166 were immediately notified, and the professor was taken to the Hippocrates Hospital in Thessaloniki, from where she left a little later, when it was established that she was healthy.

The 62-year-old woman filed a complaint with the police. Fragrant– Cordelio, who conducts investigations to identify the perpetrators. At the same time, the Thessaloniki Prosecutor’s Office for Electronic Crime is investigating another case that has raised public concern in recent years. days, the case of a 14-year-old student of Evosmos Secondary School 2, who was severely abused for two months by a group of girls who attend the same school, as well as a neighboring school in Cordelio.

Two people work in the school complex where a teacher was attacked yesterday guards-municipality employees from 07:00 to 15:00. However, the large school complex is open from 08:00 to 21:00, as it houses the 1st and 2nd EPAL Fragrantvespers EPAL Fragrant, but also alone Board of Directors The number of students passing through the doors of the building daily reaches 2000 people. Mister. Stavridis notes that the director of the 2nd EPALonce the teacher’s incident was settled, he wrote a letter to the deputy mayor directly describing the incident.

Daily incidents of violence

As the vice-mayor himself says in “K”, written direct information is what he asks high school principals whenever violence occurs. And the reason he asked for it is because it’s an everyday occurrence. “We have daily incidents of violence in schools, outside and around them. Literally two days before the incident with the vice-rector, in the evening zone EPAL, extracurricular activities set on fire. Many times they break and cut bars along the perimeter of the school, they are constantly replaced by the technical service of the municipality. Incidents are on the rise other claims have been filed against Strangers, soon the situation will get out of hand“.

Mister. Stavridis mentions at this point that the high school where the 14-year-old is studying did not update the deputy mayor of education, who, he says, just the day before yesterday, participated in a discussion with the leadership of the school in question and the director of secondary education of Western Thessaloniki on the case of a student who was filmed.

How much EPAL, a “K” source in the school in question said that the teachers themselves have been informing the authorities for a long time, “who are well aware of the difficult situation that has developed.” The same source indicates that the number of students in this school is constantly increasing and there are much more of them. fromthat in the past, they fought with teachers all the time to keep things in balance.

“In touch during the lesson”

At the same time, a professor with many years of experience in the 1st and 2nd EPAL, who wished to remain anonymous, notes in a conversation with K that the situation in EPAL is also confirmed by the fact that since last school year, when there were also fights outside the school complex, There are teachers who are on duty daily in the corridors.

“While we are teaching, now colleagues are on duty in the corridors.“, – said the professor, stressing that the bullying of teachers, profanity and tension continued this year, although the situation seemed calmer from the beginning of the school year until yesterday’s incident.

“All schools have a shift schedule.. We, in our quest to give the lesson we want, are also in touch during the lesson.. In other words, we have professors on duty who are in the corridors during classes so that there are no incidents like today’s, ”the professor explains.

He also stressed the need to strengthen school security. “The complex is huge. Sometimes even we cannot distinguish among so many students who are out of class. The professors did their best by keeping watch in the corridors. The school has two security guards, but because of the size, I don’t think there are enough,” he added, noting that the solution may ultimately lie in smaller schools.

A lot of residents – Several cops

Mister. Stavridis but also the mayor of Evosmos– Cordelio, Cleanthis Mandalian, speak of an area with a large number of inhabitants (Evosmos – 2nd more municipality in Thessaloniki), but with insufficient police control, resulting in weakness managing the ever-increasing incidence of violence.

How Mr. Stavridis: “There are 140,000 citizens in this area and the schools are first class.degrees and secondary education they arrive 107. And the school divisions, which are complexes and contain more than one school, reach 85. At a meeting that we had two years ago with minister Protection of citizens Taki Theodorikakoswhen he visited our area, we raised the issue of violence to him, telling him that IN The area needs to be reinforced. It currently consists of three patrol cars, one of which is damaged. The municipality needs more police, but basically it is necessary to arrest those who “star” everything thisspace, in incidents. There is a sense of impunity for what is happening.”

“Violence” of difficult everyday life

The Vice Mayor also adds that social phenomenon and this is also due to the heterogeneous population of the area in which immigrants coexist, Roma but also the Greeks, young in age, who ended up there with their families in recent years, since there houses are more affordable.

As he described “K” two days ago about Leonidas NathanailidesPresident of the Parents Association Cordelio Evosmos:”the families of this area live by the “violence” of difficult everyday life. In many families, parents are unemployed, in many families they are breadwinners. There are many problems, and during the pandemic they have worsened.”

He also spoke about how cases of violence against students are organized in the form of “dates” in the central square of the district. “Until now, boys have been the protagonists in incidents. Now we see that the girls are following us. In fact, for some time there was a police cage on the square, which had been parked since noon,” he added.