MADRID (EUROPA PRESS).– A hundred protesters were arrested this Saturday after the police intervened to evict a pro-Palestinian camp at Northeastern University in Boston, according to the educational institution itself.
“About 100 individuals have been detained by the police. The students who had a valid Northeastern ID have been released and will be subject to disciplinary proceedings within the university and there will be no legal measures. Those who have refused to identify themselves were detained “explained the university in a statement posted on Facebook.
The agents first gave the notice for people to leave and finally evicted the activists concentrated on the university campus, the NBC affiliate reports.
The university maintains that “what began two days ago as a student demonstration has been infiltrated by professional organizers unrelated to Northeastern” and denounces that on Friday night there were anti-Semitic insults such as “Kill the Jews”, which means “crossing the line”. “We cannot tolerate this type of hate on our campus.”
The Northeastern University denounced that these demonstrations represent a violation of the student code of conduct despite the activists defending their position. “We are peaceful students,” stressed student Alina Caudle, who assured that these are peaceful protests organized by students who are “on the right side of history.”
“It shouldn’t be a political or partisan issue. It should be simple. We don’t want innocent lives to be lost. We don’t want children to die and be buried in mass graves,” he argued in statements to CBS.
More than 400 people have been arrested, including professors, during the last nine days of pro-Palestinian protests at several universities in the United States, led by Columbia, not counting the new arrests in Boston.
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2024-04-29 16:41:26