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Police face youth ire for second week

Sit-ins at scores of academic buildings

Tension between youths and police flared up again yesterday with clashes erupting outside the capital's central police headquarters, as pupils and university students staged sit-ins at hundreds of schools and faculties across the country.

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Vatopedi inquiry findings delivered

A succession of New Democracy and PASOK ministers should be held politically responsible for failing to properly check documents that led to the state handing valuable property...

Metro closure slated for February

The on-and-off closure of the metro line to Athens International Airport, so that three new stations can be completed, appears to be on again, as sources said yesterday...

Debts led to mafia-type hit

A 40-year-old businessman shot dead in the coastal suburb of Voula on Saturday in a gangland-style ambush is believed to have owed hundreds of thousands of euros...

Athens mayor seeks to kindle Christmas spirit

Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis is to turn on the lights on a new Christmas tree in the city center this afternoon, replacing the original that was torched last week by rioters...

IN BRIEF

Papoulias, 79, has pacemaker fitted after hospital visit : President Karolos Papoulias was yesterday fitted with a pacemaker...

Two suffer gunshot wounds : Two people were hospitalized with serious gunshot wounds yesterday...

Fatal leak : A 68-year-old woman and her daughter, whose age was not determined...

Gruesome find : Police in central Greece yesterday were investigating the circumstances behind the deaths...

Migrants intercepted : Coast guard officials at the northwestern port of Igoumenitsa detained 54 illegal immigrants...

Couple freed : A Romanian couple who were arrested last Wednesday...

House fire : Rescue workers yesterday recovered the charred remains...

Santorini blockade : Residents of Santorini are set to go ahead with the blockade of the local tax office...


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EDITORIAL

Calling a spade a spade It's high time that the rectors and professors at Greece's universities called a spade a spade. It's up to them to safeguard academic freedom, the legal order and democracy at the country's universities. Anonymous protests and theatrics will simply not do this time. When they know that a university campus has been occupied by individuals who use it as a military depot in which to store their ammunition for street fighting, the academic community must ask the state to intervene.

COMMENTARY

Six in 10 Six out of 10 people questioned in a poll for Kathimerini define the events of recent days as a «social uprising.» This is exactly what the foreign media has been saying for the past 10 days, even if the Greek government refuses to define it as such. The same number also said that this is a mass movement and not the work of individuals. It's unlikely that all the people questioned are agents of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA).

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

Veil of illusions lifted For years we feared that the dangerous game between anti-establishment youths and police would lead to someone being killed. But even so, when the dreadful event did occur, no one could have predicted how terrible it would be nor how it would shake Greece to its core. The murder was not committed in the heat of battle between anarchists and riot police, where it could somehow be explained as a predictable accident.

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