According to Swiss media, the police intervened early this morning to end the occupation of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) by pro-Palestine students.
About 20 police officers, both in uniform and plainclothes, entered the UniMail building around 05:00 local time (06:00 Greek time), said a reporter for the Keystone-ATS news agency who was there. “Most of the protesters were sleeping. After they were gathered, they were taken to the underground parking area of the facilities,” Gilli Zaug, a journalist for the television network LémanbleuTV, reported on social media X.
“A small committee waits in front of the entrance to this parking lot, clapping incessantly and chanting slogans of support for Palestine or to her fellow students,” added the journalist, clarifying that she saw students “in handcuffs being led to cages” by the police. These students wanted to denounce the Israeli attack on Gaza Stripwhich was triggered by the unprecedented offensive of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7 at Israel.
Her University Geneva (UNIGE) raised the tone yesterday, Monday, following the failure of ongoing negotiations, announcing the filing of a criminal trespass lawsuit against pro-Palestinian students.
According to newsbeast, in a letter addressed to the university community yesterday, the university administration states that it understands “the support expressed by the club to the victims of the conflict in Gaza”, but calls for an end to the occupation and suggests other ways to express their solidarity from within the university.
Like pro-Palestinian protesters on many other Swiss campuses, the UNIGE students are mainly asking the university to take a position on an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and to stop cooperating with Israeli universities and research institutes.
The student movement in support of the Palestinians, inspired by the occupations of university campuses in the USA, started at the University of Lausanne and has since spread, more or less temporarily, to other universities in the country, including those of Friborg, Basel, Bern or also the Polytechnic Schools of Lausanne and Zurich
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