Tanks appeared in the streets of Athens at midnight on November 17. They surrounded the Polytechnic School and one of the tanks tore down the iron exterior doors and the barricades of the students at 3 o'clock in the morning. Soldiers, police, undercover police and armed paramilitary forces invaded and began to arrest and mistreat the young people gathered in the building. People were also killed, whose number has been refuted repeatedly.
The events that happened 37 years ago have not lost much of their influence. The Polytechnic School has become the symbol of the fight against the right wing. Posters with portraits of Marx and Che Guevara, with hammers and sickles, but also with the symbols of anarchism could be seen in its hallways.
Each year after the celebration of the events’ anniversary anarchists traditionally cause serious clashes with police. And every year the discussion on "Should the university inviolability be cancelled?" is renewed. But no government has dared to change this status so far.
The events of recent days raised the issue persistently. New Democracy and LAOS called for the status of asylum to be abolished arguing that no one needs asylum in a democratic country. The turmoil of shifting the responsibility for solving the problem of immigrants between university and state authorities is very indicative of the difficulty of making any decision, even in cases of gross abuse of an outdated measure that raises discussions.
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