Police have banned all public rallies and protest marches in a part of central Athens on Saturday and Sunday, due to fears of clashes at an event planned by neo-Nazi Golden Dawn to mark the anniversary of the 1996 Imia crisis, when Greece and Turkey almost went to war over the uninhabited islet.
The president of the Pakistani community, Javied Aslam, prays at the site where migrant Shahzad Luqman was murdered in Petralona, Athens by two men with links to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group on the 11th anniversary of the incident.
A lawyer who represented former MEP Yiannis Lagos of the now disbanded Golden Dawn party has been permanently disbarred from the Athens Bar Association after a decision on Wednesday by the Secondary Disciplinary Council, chaired by Supreme Court President Ioanna Klapa-Christodoulea. Konstantinos Plevris was struck off for making Nazi salutes during an appeal by convicted […]
Greek Police on Thursday banned all public rallies and protest marches in Attica on November 1, which marks the 10-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of two members of the now-defunct, Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party, citing a “risk to public safety” and the possibility of violence.
Ilias Kasidiaris, the jailed former deputy leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group, has been granted five days’ leave from prison. It is the first period leave granted to Kasidiaris, 42, since he was sentenced three years ago to 13 years and six months’ imprisonment for directing a criminal organization.
The disciplinary board at maximum-security Domokos Prison, in central Greece, where former Golden Dawn official Ilias Kasidiaris is serving his sentence for running a criminal organization as a leading member of the neo-Nazi outfit, acquitted him or irregular telephone communications during a meeting on May 5.
The power of image can now replace the force of iron bars, and social networks can replace public squares for spreading rhetoric.
A move by the far-right National Party-Greeks to remove three members of the Supreme Court’s A1 Civil Section considering its eligibility to contest the May 21 election has been unanimously rejected.
Three former leading figures in the now-defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party were cleared of inciting racist violence in a case relating to derogatory comments allegedly made against Muslim lawmakers in Parliament in March 2018.
With elections looming, YouTube has become the main platform through which jailed former Golden Dawn official Ilias Kasidiaris is conducting his campaign, despite a recent amendment passed by Parliament which aims to ban the participation of his the National Party-The Greeks.
Poor Markos Botsaris. This will not be the first time that the chieftain of the Souliotes and hero of the Greek War of Independence will be turning in his grave with helpless rage.
The Athens Bar Association’s (ABA) disciplinary board removed Konstantinos Plevris, a lawyer representing a former member of the neo-Nazi criminal organization Golden Dawn, after he gave a Nazi salute in front of judges at an appeal hearing attended by dozens of people.
Government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou lashed out against SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday due to the party’s decision to vote “present” on the provision for the exclusion of the party of jailed far-right extremist Ilias Kasidiaris from the upcoming elections.
The Greek parliament paved the way for banning political parties whose leaders have been convicted of crimes from running in elections, ahead of national polls in spring.
A court in Athens on Friday ordered police to force a crucial witness to appear and testify in the ongoing appeal trial against the landmark October 2020 verdict that found the leadership of the neo-Nazi party guilty of running a criminal organization, among other serious crimes.
A senior Golden Dawn member convicted over the 2013 murder of leftist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, among other crimes, was led away in handcuffs from Athens Appeals Court after hurling insults at Fyssas’ mother.
