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House speaker, SYRIZA officials lay wreath at Polytechnic memorial

House speaker, SYRIZA officials lay wreath at Polytechnic memorial

House speaker Nikos Voutsis, Education Minister Costas Gavroglou and SYRIZA party secretary Panayiotis Rigas on Wednesday took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at a memorial for the November 17, 1973 student uprising against the military dictatorship.

“Battles that must not be forgotten were fought here and they have to be a reference point for the difficult times we are going through,” said Voutsis after depositing a wreath in front of the historic premises of the National Technical University of Athens, then Athens Polytechnic, where a protest by students was violently quashed by the junta regime.

“The honor always belongs to these heroes,” he said.

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