A long list of world leaders have flocked to Paris on Sunday to join the crowds paying tribute to the victims of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the French policemen, the shoppers in a kosher supermarket. Atheists, Jews, Muslims: all dead by the bullets of fanatic jihadists claiming to have committed …
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PM Samaras politically exploits Charlie Hebdo attack for …votes
Greece’s acting Prime Minister Antonis Samaras could not help it. He could not go beyond his inner demons of vanity and political ambitions and self-righteousness. So he made a linking of the Charlie Hebdo massacre with the migration in Greece just for the sake of attacking main opposition left-wing SYRIZA. …
Read More »Outrage in Greece as ND MP seeks to gain xenophobic votes out of Charlie Hebdo massacre
Acting Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and deputy PM and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos expressed their deep abhorrence and outrage to the massacre of 12 people at the office of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo by unknown gunmen Wednesday morning in Paris. But some Greek politicians, known for their far-right …
Read More »Norman Atlantic towed to Italy; 13 dead, number of missing still unclear
Six days after the marine tragedy of Norman Atlantic and the number of missing person still varies largely. According to Italian news network Tg5, while the prosecutor in Bari said on Friday that the missing were 90, Greeks put the number of missing at 18. “The same names are with …
Read More »Crete: 17-month old migrant baby girl survives 4 days in the sea in the arms of rescuer, 19
It sounds unbelievable. A 17-month old baby girl survived four days among the waves of the Mediterranean Sea after the boat carrying her parents and several hundreds migrants from Syria sank between Crete and Malta. The testimony of her rescuer Doa Al Zamel, 19, is creepy. Nearly 500 migrants form …
Read More »Greek Jews and Anti-Defamation League criticize appointment of new Health Minister
Greek Jews and the Anti-Defamation League sharply criticized the appointment of the new Health Minister Makis Voridis due to his far-right past. Makis Voridis, a 49-year-old lawyer, has denied allegations of crypto-fascism and antisemitism and had described himself as a national liberal with a right-wing activist background as student. However, no …
Read More »Golden Dawn intimidates Medecins du Monde polyclinic
Chanting slogans against migrants, a group of 30 Golden Dawn members gathered outside the polyclinic of humanitarian organization Medecins du Monde in Perama on Thursday. At that point some 40 Greek and foreign patients, among them many children were inside the polyclinic. Dressed in the known GD uniforms, the troublemakers …
Read More »Baltakos-Gate stirs Greece’s political world, as the PM suffers from strong headaches
“I decided to play a specific role for the good of the party and Greece, we could not leave 500,000 Greeks trapped in Golden Dawn and do nothing. Somebody had to maintain contacts with them. I was telling them what they wanted to hear.” With these words former cabinet secretary …
Read More »Crete: 331 human fates loaded on a fishing boat wreck
I guess that’s what we call “A picture is worth one thousand words”. Three hundred thirty one people, among them more than one hundred women and children, all loaded on a boat wreck. Three hundred thirty one people in search of a better life – no matter what the risks …
Read More »Greek gov’t ministers “duel” over controversial provision in immigration draft law
For a second time in less than 24 hours, Deputy Interior Minister Leonidas Grigorakos removed a controversial provision from the draft immigration law, a provision that foresaw the expulsion of immigrants found to have made false allegations of racial-motivated violence by the police authorities. The removal of provision No. 19 …
Read More »Recent cases of censorship create concern in democratic Greece
I didn’t know there was a legal term called “preventive censorship.” It looks as if there is or there could be. It was applied by a Greek judge to ban the broadcast of an investigative report into the recent migrant boat accident that cost the life of 3 women and …
Read More »Farmakonisi Tragedy: 45 SYRIZA-members detained during protest at Maritime Minister’s office
Forty-five mostly students, members of left-wing SYRIZA youth section have been detained during a protest at the office of maritime Minister Miltiadis Varvitiotis on Thursday morning. While the protesters blame the police for ‘attacking them without reason’, reporters and also a SYRIZA lawmaker and the mayor of Komotini claim that …
Read More »Athens: Iranian migrant says, he had his ear bitten off in a racist attack (video)
A young migrant from Iran says he was the target of a racist attack about two months ago in central Athens. Describing how he was attacked, he also said that one of his attackers had bitten off his ear. The man, identified himself as Shaid, said he was walking on …
Read More »Vandi breaks cooperation with Sfakianakis after he praises Golden Dawn
Singer Despoina Vandi broke her cooperation with Notis Sfakianakis after his statements praising extreme-right Golden Dawn. Vandi’s decision to break her cooperation contract came just hours after Sfakianakis statement that the “only party that could properly govern Greece was Golden Dawn,” on Thursday. Sfakianakis repeated his support to Golden Dawn …
Read More »Athens: New urban guerrilla group claims killing of Golden Dawn members
A previously unknown urban guerrilla group calling itself “Militant Popular Revolutionary Forces” has claimed responsibility for the murders of two Golden Dawn members and the serious injuring of a third one on November 1.In an 18-page proclamation the group said that the shooting of the Golden Dawn members was a …
Read More »Crete: kicks and punches against Pakistani workers
Kicks and punches were the answer of two animal breeders to their workers when they refused to return to work. According to local prismanews.gr, the five Pakistani migrants refused to work because of their religious holiday but also due to outstanding wages. The father and the son beat the workers, …
Read More »BBC: The price list of Golden Dawn – offering services similar to organized crime
Leader of Golden Dawn Nikos Michaloliakos is in custody facing charges of being the leader of a criminal organization. In jail pending trial are also two party MPs, whiel three other MPs were released on bail. The decision of Greek government to crack down the extreme-right party on charges of …
Read More »Golden Dawn arrests: “Violence is the message” (rundup)
Six Golden Dawn MPs including leader Nikos Michaloliakos and another 16 organization members are been held in Greek Police headquarters in Athens. Their detention started in the early morning hours of Saturday and temporarily concluded on Sunday afternoon, when MP Christos Pappas surrender to police. According to prosecutor, Pappas is second-in-command of …
Read More »With 15 demands Greek Army Reservists want immediate resignation of government
Greek government, state and authorities are set on alert after a union of a union of Greek army reservists of Special Forces (KEED) issued a statement urging the Greek administration to step down and make way for a national unity government. The statement, posted on the union’s website on Wednesday, …
Read More »Op-ed on Pavlos Fyssas murder: dangerous political game that backfired and got out of control
Αll signs show that it was a cold-blooded murder. Eye witnesses speak of a car that drove the one-way street the opposite direction, that assailant came out of the car and stabbed the victim twice. 34-year-old anti-fascist and rapper Pavlos Fyssas died short after the stabbing in the hospital. 45-year-old …
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