The crisis at the Law School is close to defusion

By Vasilis Dalianis

A prospect for agreement on the evacuation of the School appeared shortly before midnight, as the squatting immigrants convened to discuss whether to accept the last proposal issued by the prosecutor.

The immigrants seem willing to move out and be relocated to the ground level of a building in Patision, while their transportation will take place with police following them from a block away.

The Solidarity Movement will be in the same space, while only certain people will be allowed to visit them.

Earlier, immigrant and Muslim organizations who met with Citizen Protection minister Cristos Papoutsis, called on the immigrants inside the Law School to depart.

Late in the afternoon, as the proctor administration had given the order to lift the asylum, there was a lot of tension as the building was surrounded by large numbers of MAT and Dias teams.

In fact, a representative of the immigrants warned Papoutsis on the protothema.gr camera that «If you make the mistake to come in, bring coffins with you. We will not leave this place alive!».

Alekos Alavanos found himself inside the School and stressed exclusively on protothema.gr that «It would have been more apposite had they occupied the EU buildings in Athens to make Europe understand that Greece cannot become a misery warehouse. But now the asylum is at stake. The issue is not whether some unfortunates entered an abandoned building without threatening anybody. The issue is that the Greek citizen should have his daily bread, something that is constantly at stake».

Solonos and Akadimias remain closed, while the Panepistimiou metro station was shut down at around 7:30pm upon police orders.