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Psychiatrist suspended over claims he helped GD members get gun licenses

A doctor at a psychiatric hospital in Athens has been suspended for a month while authorities investigate allegations that he gave Golden Dawn members certificates so they could obtain gun licenses.

Apart from declaring the patients in question mentally sound, the psychiatrist also granted members of the extremist party notes claiming they were suffering from depression so that their court cases could be postponed. The doctor faces internal and judicial investigations.

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