ATHENS - Anarchists and left-wing mob clashed with Greek police in the centre of Athens during a demonstration, organized by university students against new laws which have been proposed by the Greek Minister of Education, Marietta Yiannakou. Around 300 masked youths of left-wing and anarchist ideology caused heavy damage in cars, shops and private properties located in central Athens, while a fight between police special forces and a left-wing mob took place around the area of the Athens’ Polytechnic as well as outside the Law School of Athens. Police used tear gas while anarchists tried to attack the police forces using stones, molotov cocktail bombs as well as flares. This is the third clash between police forces and anarchists in the center of Athens, during the last month.

Moreover, clashes took place between left-wing activist organizations and police forces outside the holiday resort of Lagonissi, around 45 kilometers south-east of central Athens, where the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) debated in an organized congress about Education. Outside the resort of Lagonissi as well as in the streets of downtown Athens, student unions accompanied by the PAME leftist working union which want to preserve the monopoly of state universities clashed with police as they tried to approach the congress area.

Greek university students currently occupy more than 400 faculties across the country, including the two biggest universities of Greece, to protest the government’s reform proposals that have to do with foundation of private universities-institutions.