UNIVERSITY ASYLUM GREECE

Not everyone should be allowed access to university buildings and the status of university student is not a license to vandalise property or to violently attack professors.

Here, university professors have been attacked and university infrastructure has been destroyed and we treat it as simply part of daily life.

An open letter signed by five academics and politicians states that the free movement of knowledge and ideas is inconceivable in an environment in which the free expression of thought is threatened.

Critics of university asylum point to physical attacks against professors, the destruction of university property, and the fact that drug dealers on campuses also use the law as a shield for lawlessness.

Mitsotakis has vowed to abolish university asylum, to clean up Exarcheia, and to abolish furloughs for those serving multiple life sentences, such as the former N17 terrorist group’s top gun, Dimitris Koufodinas.