Police sweep at National Polytechnic University results in detention of six

According to police, the search of premises was carried out under a court representative following charges that undocumented migrants were using the area as living quarters and that the university’s premises were being used to create explosive and incendiary devices, as well as to store material used during rallies.

The police confiscated, among other things, 160 staves, a sledgehammer, a mortar shell case, a container with flammable liquid, seven pepper spray containers, a gas mask and a balaclava, eight helmets, a Greek identity that had been reported as lost, an Israeli identity and a French driver’s licence.

Police said they had turned over to university administrators the use of spaces that had been off limits by occupation for the last thirty years.

Police is continuing its investigations.

Source: ΑΜΝΑ