Greece scraps law banning police from university campuses

Repeal of law was key part of Kyriakos Mitsotakis's election campaign

Greece's newly elected, centre-right government has ignored leftists' protests to overturn a law that had prohibited police from entering universities.

In a stormy debate preceding Thursday's vote, the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, insisted the old law - regarded as sacrosanct in a country that had once known military rule - had turned campuses into dens of criminality and no-go zones for police.