Eleven arrests in student dormitory occupied in Thessaloniki

Eleven young people linked to the double attack that occurred at dawn on Saturday on premises of the Aristotelio Univerrsity in Thessaloniki were arrested, following an operation in an occupied location in the University’s second student dormitory in the region of 40 Ekklisies in Thessaloniki.

They are eight men and three women, aged between 19 and 27, including a foreign national, who are affiliated ideologically to the so-called anti-establishment and anarchist sector. Files of proceedings have been prepared against them for, among other things, the offences of a “criminal organisation”, “robbery” and the “violation of the law regarding weapons.”

According to an announcement made at a press conference by Thessaloniki Security director Athinagoras Pazarlis, two students and a pupil are among those arrested, while one of the defendants had been released from prison recently, having served a sentence for robberies in Thessaloniki.