Athens univ. officials issue urgent request to end occupation by ‘anti-state’ youth

Breaking news: Nine people were detained outside the building late in the evening, with riot police also surrounding the premises

University of Athens officials on Monday issued an urgent plea, personally, to PM Alexis Tsipras and other political leaders to end a 15-day occupation of the school’s administration building by so-called “anti-state” activists, warning even of … fatalities inside the building.

An issued statement qualified the warning of corpses found on university premises due to widespread drug use inside the building.

An undetermined number of people occupying the building in central Athens, known as a the “Propylea”, have demanded a series of measures aimed at alleviating conditions for politically like-minded … convicts and those on remand in Greek jails pending trial. Their demands include a ban on maximum-security prisons, nixing a law that makes the wearing of a hood during the commission of a crime a felony offense, curbing the use of DNA testing to assign guilt and even conditionally releasing a convicted urban terrorist (Savvas Xiros) injured in 2002 while placing a bomb.

With the occupation entering a third week administrative work at the university has paralyzed.

“It is with concern that we are realizing that there is a danger of a loss of life inside the administration building, given that reliable information shows that addicted individuals are using narcotic substances there,” the announcement stated, while adding that clashes are taking place between groups of people that have nothing to do with the university.