Student-organised space raided and vandalised after NTUA Rector orders, aided by major contractor and police
The NTUA Rectorate Watchgroup has reported that "In the early hours of Saturday, 24 May, the Rector of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), I. Chatzigeorgiou, along with a crew from well-known contractor Chrimatopoulos – who has been given, by direct award of contract, a mandate to clear all occupied spaces on the NTUA campus in central Athens – entered the dressing room area of the Engineering Workshop. They began dismantling and loading items into lorries and the Gini Building." Two days later, the area appeared to have been completely vandalised.
The NTUA Rectorate Watchgroup has reported that "In the early hours of Saturday, 24 May, the Rector of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), I. Chatzigeorgiou, along with a crew from well-known contractor Chrimatopoulos – who has been given, by direct award of contract, a mandate to clear all occupied spaces on the NTUA campus in central Athens – entered the dressing room area of the Engineering Workshop. They began dismantling and loading items into lorries and the Gini Building." Two days later, the area appeared to have been completely vandalised.
According to the initial statement from the Watchgroup:
“On the Rector’s orders, the entire complex was locked down (as is usual every weekend), while Chrimatopoulos called in the police to escort him off the campus, claiming he felt threatened by people outside the premises.”
They went on to comment that “NTUA continues its familiar mafia-style tactics of evicting spaces through ultimatums and sending in crews in secret – targeting an area that for over 23 years has functioned as a self-managed space for student thesis work and countercultural activity.”
Two days later, the Watchgroup released fresh images of the site, stating: “This is the state the Engineering Workshop was left in after the raid led by Rector I. Chatzigeorgiou and contractor Chrimatopoulos’s crew.”
They further reported that on Monday, 26 May, during a public address at the Averof Building – just two days after the eviction and destruction of the space – professors from the school intervened, with one of them allegedly shoving female students and issuing threats of disciplinary action and police intervention.
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