[fse-esf] Huge demonstration – police brutality

[Yannis Almpanis]

Huge demonstration – police brutality

On March 8 about 40.000 students and university professors demonstrated in 
the streets of Athens. It was the biggest demonstration since the beginning 
of the  university movement.

When the students tried to break the police blockade, the riot police 
attacked the demonstration with tear gas. Hundreds of students  were 
brutally bitten and 61  were arrested (they are going to trial on Monday). 
Despite the police attack, the demonstration was not dispersed and for many 
hours thousands of people were  demonstrating and resisting to police.

Although the new neoliberal law was voted by the right-wing majority of the 
Parliament, the movement doesn’t  seem to go down.  291 university 
departments are occupied (the occupations started on January 8) and the 
university professors are on strike (the strike began on late January).

Some photos from the demonstration:

http://www.indy.gr/newswire/enimerosi-gia-tin-foititik-poreia-stin-athna-8-marti



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