Front line video of the Riot Police attacking greek Students outside the Polytechynic University

13 November 2014. Four days before the anniversary of the students revolt in Greece against the dictatorship regime in 1973, the self-proclaimed democratic greek government, in collaboration with the Athens universities authorities, without any prior notification, surrounded and closed down all universities in Athens with scores of riot policemen and police bikers.



Although such an action shows that the regime seems scared and trembles in the idea of just an anniversary of a revolt 41 years ago, this actually had the opposite effect. Instead of students getting scared this kind of tactic aggravated the situation in a deteriorating higher education system with no actual future. So on Thursday morning (13/11/2014) students tried to go to classes in various universities in Athens and Thessaloniki only to be attacked by the riot police. This lead to a new protest in the evening with even more people in the center of Athens that approached the Polytechnic School of Athens at Exarcheia to hold an assembly.



This video shows that attempt to open the locked central doors and the subsequent new attack of the Riot Police against more than 5.000 students.