Committee report falls short of offering guidelines on campus crime

A report by a committee set up last year by the Education Ministry to investigate the problem of lawlessness in Greek universities has not offered specific solutions but leaves it to specific institutions to tackle the problem as they see fit, Kathimerini understands.

The report - which is expected to become the subject of debate between government officials and university representatives - is to be made public in early July, the head of the committee, Nikos Paraskevopoulos, a former justice minister and honorary professor of law at Thessaloniki's Aristotle University, has told Kathimerini.

The committee was set up by Education Minister Costas Gavroglou shortly after a group of 471 students at Aristotle University sent a letter the university's rector and the dean of the faculty demanding action against rampant crime on the campus grounds, ranging from muggings and drug...