Universities rattled by attacks targeting academics in Thessaloniki, Athens

A vandal belonging to the Rouvikonas radical spray-paints a wall successful the gathering where prof Vana Nikolaidou-Kyrianidou lives.

Two superior incidents targeting university academics were reported successful Greece successful caller days, including the harassment of a elder head astatine Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and vandalism astatine the residence of an Athens prof who has antecedently been criticized for her nationalist positions.

At Aristotle University, schoolhouse authorities said the vice rector for planetary relations, extroversion, lifelong learning and student welfare, Iakovos Michailidis, was harassed Thursday wrong the medication gathering by a radical of antheral and pistillate students supported by module members. Authorities said Michailidis became unwell due to the fact that of the tension and aggression, interrupted a scheduled gathering with a delegation from the University of Hong Kong and was taken to AHEPA Hospital. His information was described arsenic good.

The university medication said the incidental was linked to absorption implicit a caller interior regularisation governing student dormitories. According to university authorities, the protesters were seeking the cancellation of a unanimous corporate determination by the university senate.

The regulation, approved successful precocious March, requires each beneficiary to motion a backstage statement stating that rooms will beryllium used lone by the nonmigratory student for lodging and study. It bans the transfer of rooms to others, overnight stays by relatives oregon different radical and visits extracurricular designated communal areas. Pets are besides prohibited.

The rules additionally prohibition intoxicant depletion successful communal areas, smoking and vaping. Residents are required to screen the afloat outgo of repairing damages successful their rooms and communal spaces. To papers imaginable damages, rooms will beryllium videotaped when handed implicit to residents and inspected again earlier departure.

“Such phenomena person nary spot successful the nationalist university,” the university medication said. “They explicit a small number attempting to enforce its will done intimidation, insulting quality dignity, endangering quality beingness and undermining world state and organization function.”

Student associations opposing the regularisation person described it arsenic an “unreasonable and authoritarian caller statement aimed astatine the implicit disciplining and power of dormitory residents.”

In Athens, members of the self-styled anarchist radical Rouvikonas vandalized the flat gathering where National and Kapodistrian University prof Vana Nikolaidou-Kyrianidou lives. The prof has repeatedly been targeted implicit her views, including statements supporting efforts to code the contented of so-called perpetual students, according to the text. No injuries were reported successful that incident.