ND leader, ministry in row over spike in crime at universities

The Education Ministry clashed with conservative New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday over a recent spike in crime and lawlessness on Greek university campuses. 

The ND chief walked past the Athens University of Economics and Business on Wednesday in the wake of claims by academics about the problem and later expressed his shock at "the unacceptable sight of street vendors occupying a public space," noting that those same vendors routinely "seek refuge inside the university to avoid arrest." 

Mitsotakis vowed that a ND government would change the asylum laws that currently keep police out of universities in a bid to stamp out rising crime on their premises and ensure that authorities can enter campuses if they determine that crimes are being committed there. 

"This is not the image of a state university," Mitsotakis said after his visit to AUEB. ...