Infinite beauty scenes at Athens City Hall with the toleration of Duke – Anti-authorities interrupted the City Council meeting

Incredible images unfolded during yesterday’s Athens. Members of the anti-authoritarian space reacting to the metro works in Exarchia after they managed, with the tolerance of the municipal authority, to enter the Municipal Palace of Kotzia Street, interrupted the body meeting, bringing out unstructured cries and launching threats. The City Council process was derailed early on, as these groups began to intervene arbitrarily on issues discussed by the body about Refugees on Alexandra Avenue, the redevelopment on Strefis Hill and the Exarchie Subway. The climate became even more explosive when Eleni Papadopoulou took the floor to develop the positions of her group. The anti-authoritarian group reacted strongly with voices and disorderly interventions, while for its part the party leader “Our Athens” began to urgently ask the city council Bureau if the site is occupied. The process was transformed, under the responsibility of the Mayor of Athens, into an uncontrolled mess, while the situation got out of hand several times. In fact, according to testimonies, there was a strong and abusive verbal attack on a lawyer of the Municipality, who had attended the trials for the Exarchie Metro and the work of the reconstruction of Strefis. The deregulated and unprecedented situation in the council area, which brought to the surface and the failure of the municipal authority to control the process and protect the body, forced the Bureau to suspend the debate. A discussion that was, of course, lost early as it was done by obstacles, in an environment of harassment, tension, preconceived and intimidation. Finally, after nearly two hours of delay and inconvenience to the whole body the meeting continued to be completed shortly after 11 p.m. After yesterday’s fiasco, the big question that arises is how this group of anti-authorities managed – for the first time in the chronicles – to enter with its…Pass in the premises of Athens City Hall, as well as what measures had been taken by the municipal authority, so that the city council could do its work safely, without bullying and threats.