Kostas Charonis for Polytechnics: The bullets in the student bodies revealed snipers.

The scenes that took place in the dramatic events of the uprising are described by 95-year-old Kostas Charonis, who at that time was director of a surgical clinic at the General State Hospital. The doctor made it clear that “there is no doubt about the deaths of the Polytechnic”, arguing that most of the incidents he treated were from bullets. “We didn’t think we were at war,” he said features to then say that he informed the other hospitals, in order for the nursing staff to prepare for imports of injured people. “I just saw what the other hospitals were about to get ready for, but they were answering that they weren’t on call. However, they finally saw the seriousness of the thing,” he recalls. “No one at first believed what was going to happen. We looked to prepare and did quite well,” he said, speaking to ERT, noting that all those who were taken injured to the General State Hospital were saved. “We were constantly in surgery. We had no death. They brought two or three dead.” According to Mr. Haronis, most wounded had been attacked with bullets. “ Most of these were from snipers in building rooftops. The shot from the bullets is irrefutable,” he completed. The 95-year-old also spoke of some who were lucky, with him mentioning the example of a girl about 18-20 years old, who had been wounded by a bullet. “The bullet passed through the left armpit, entered the chest, went ahead of the heart, passed across, passed through the other lung and fell the bullet into there. It’s incredible we didn’t count her on the dead. Probably if colleagues are listening to us now they won’t believe it. Then we removed the bullet and the surgery went very well, ” stressed Mr. Haronis.