The crisis in Athens Law School is defused

The situation inside the School seems to be defusing. After many hour-long meetings the provost administration reached an agreement with four NGOs for the transportation of the immigrants to a building in Athens this morning.

As it became known from the chairman of the Conference of Provosts, Theodoros Papatheodorou, the building meets all the hygiene and safety regulations. If the talks with the migrants succeed, they will be transferred to that building today.

Earlier, according to governmental circles, the relevant ministers seemed unwilling to legalize any immigrants. They indicated: «Within a short time we have set the conditions to coordinate immigration policy after the inaction of the ND governmental decree. With the revision of immigration law 3386/05, we beat black labour by incorporating the European directive. This occupation is brutal and coercive. It triggers polarization and is bad for immigrants. Through these practices the real problems get obscured. The academic community has to protect the asylum and the rule of law. We do not succumb to violence».

«Find an immediate solution»

Meanwhile, after a long governmental meeting the PM gave direct mandates for immediate solution and law implementation.

Papandreou launched an attack on the Left saying «The left and progress are not lawlessness… it does not mean investing in a screwed-up society and rejoice about images of destruction that travel around the world».

The provost of the University of Athens, T. Pelegrinis, had also asked for a peaceful solution without measures of force, and repeated that there are attempts for a consensus while there is no issue of lifting the asylum.

The positions of KKE and SYRIZA

On her part, the general secretary of KKE Aleka Papariga asked the government to announce measures in favor of the immigrants, while the president of the PG of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras said that «our crisis is not the immigrants' fault».

Finally, once again governmental circles made it clear that every option for a peaceful solution will be exhausted and the police will only intervene in case of criminal behavior.