Court acquits three over attack on dean in university

Three erstwhile Athens economics students were acquitted Tuesday of attacking and publically humiliating their university’s dean successful his bureau astir six years ago, successful an incidental that shocked a state inured to governmental violence successful academia.

A tribunal accepted the prosecutors’ proposal that the two men and 1 woman beryllium cleared of each charges owed to insufficient evidence. 

All three defendants had denied immoderate wrongdoing, saying that while they were successful the Athens University of Economics and Business – formerly known arsenic ASOEE – gathering during the onslaught and belonged to a leftwing student society they rejected violence.

During the October 2020 attack, a radical of youths successful hoods forced their way into Dimitris Bouradonis’ office, smashed furniture, ornaments and bureau equipment, tied him to his chair, and photographed him with a committee with a humiliating connection circular his neck, aboriginal publishing the representation connected a leftwing website.

The incidental came among student protests implicit the evacuation of a squat successful a gathering belonging to the university. At the time, authorities had offered a €100,000 grant for accusation starring to arrests implicit the onslaught connected Bouradonis.

The erstwhile dean told the tribunal that helium was unable to place his attackers. Another 5 radical initially charged implicit the onslaught were aboriginal cleared.