N. Iliopoulos: The government should stop the vendetta with the students and the new generation now

“With what is happening at the Aristotle University, with a government that operates in terms of vendetta against the new generation, we risk having a dead body every day,” said SYRIZA-PS spokesman Nasos Iliopoulos, speaking on the radio station “Sto Kokkino 105 , 5 “, referring to” yesterday’s images of cruel repression at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which led to the most serious injury of a student and his hospitalization “. The government has called for an end to the vendetta against students and the new generation: “Gather before we have a dead body at the university,” the SYRIZA-PS spokesman told the Minister of Citizen Protection and the Prime Minister.

Mr. Iliopoulos described as “funny excuses” what the police say, emphasizing that yesterday’s announcement “reminded what the police said in the famous case of the planter”. He argued that “yesterday’s images are a structural feature of government policy” and that “the ND has chosen from the outset to present” security “as a field of simple, naked repression”. “What ND is actually doing is questioning the security of the educational process and the academic community, questioning the security of students,” he added. He commented that “if we had seen such images in Erdogan’s Turkey, a MAT man throwing a flash-grenade at a student, it would be first news on Greek channels, we would be talking about Erdogan’s authoritarianism, about a government “collapsing, for a government that can not control accuracy and bets on repression and authoritarianism.”

Mr. Iliopoulos accused the government of combining an extreme neoliberal identity with traditional right-wing state authoritarianism, pointing out that it legislates in favor of private colleges and undeclared work and that “this policy cannot be implemented without repression.” “The choice of repression is also an attempt by the government to form a reactionary bloc in society, based on the logic that they are promoting a regime of lawlessness,” he added.

The SYRIZA-PS spokesman described ND as a “force of institutional, profound lawlessness”, emphasizing that “what it has done with the Novartis scandal, the dissolution of the Labor Inspectorate, the dissolution of the Environmental Inspectorate, the constant change of rules in favor of strong, they constantly reproduce a logic of institutional lawlessness in favor of the few “. “Therefore, the ND government can in no way guarantee the security of society,” he said.

He also noted that ND “has no institutional anxiety about the democratic functioning of the police”, citing as an example the fact that “after the murder of the young Roma in Perama, the Minister of Civil Protection, Mr. Theodorikakos, visited the police charged with murder “. “But this ends up becoming dangerous,” he said, adding: “When these are the signals of the political leadership, when the orders are constantly escalating, then the only word for Mr. Theodorikakos, Ms. Kerameos and finally “Kyriakos Mitsotakis is” gather “, gather because the worst will come”.

Mr. Iliopoulos spoke of a “huge fiasco” referring to the government’s decision to set up a university police force, stressing that “we are talking about a huge bribe of people who have been hired without any meritocracy” and that “the only country in our wider neighborhood that “Erdogan’s Turkey has a permanent police presence on campus. This is not a European example.”

Referring to the “thousands of people who demonstrated yesterday in Thessaloniki, reacting to government authoritarianism”, Mr. Iliopoulos pointed out that “things can not change if there is no resistance from society.” “We need movements, we need everything that gives courage to society and shows that things can go differently, paves the way for political change. After all, political change is not possible without the government, but the government alone is not enough.” underlined.

Source: AMPE