Shots fired outside Golden Dawn offices in Athens
Fourteen people were taken in for questioning on Saturday after a Transport Ministry employee moonlighting as a security guard for the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party fired shots in a busy part of central Athens in what he claims was self-defense.
The incident ocurred outside the party’s offices in the downtown district of Patissia.
Sources said the man, who was guarding the office’s entrance, pulled out a gun when he was allegedly attacked by a group of self-styled anarchists. Meanwhile, a clash between anti-establishment protesters and Golden Dawn members also took place at the party’s offices in Aspropyrgos, west of Athens.
Reports said that the protesters were in a motorcade headed to the Hellenic Petroleum plant, where four workers were killed last month in an industrial accident, when they stopped at the Golden Dawn office and clashed with members there. It was not clear whether the two incidents were related.
