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Anastasia Balezdrova

The 300 illegal immigrants who occupied the building of the Law Scholl and mad a camp in the halls some day ago will be taken out of it any minute. The operation is carried out under prosecutorial supervision. Currently, two prosecutors are in the Law School building and one is with the police forces that blocked all the streets around the university building located in downtown Athens. Riot forces are concentrated in the region to establish public order and ordinary police officers. Онлъ residents of the neighbourhood are allowed to move.

The Dean of the Law School required in the afternoon the inviolability of the university building to be cancelled and the authorities to intervene to resolve the complicated situation. The government had required the immigrants to leave the building by noon but they refused to obey.

Representatives of the illegal immigrants who went on hunger strike two days ago are having a conversation with the Minister for Citizens Protection Christos Papoutsis. During a parallel meeting with one of the two prosecutors who are in the building of the Law School the starving immigrants have set two requirements to move to another building – to be moved in complete security and their new shelter to be permanent. Thei new building provided to them is located on the corner of Patision Avenue and Ipiros Street. It is privately owned and its owner has set requirements in turn - only illegal immigrants to settle in it but not human rights activists who advise them. Obviously, this condition is the bone of contention now.

If it comes to police invasion in the building of the Law School at the University of Athens, this will be the first breach of the inviolability of university buildings after the fall of the junta. Therefore, not only police gathered around the building of the Law School but many left-wing supporters chanting: "Freedom denies cells".

Further details will be submitted later