Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Thessaloniki in opposition to a law passed by the Ministry of Education in February, which would allow police to re-enter university campuses for the first time since the reformation of the Greek government after the fall of the military dictatorship.
Via Land & Freedom, alerta_gr & Chris Avramidis
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