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 …
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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 …
Read More »Six Greek-Americans in Forbes 400 billionaires’ list
Here! There are indeed billionaires with Greek blood flowing in their veins. But they are not here in Greece. They are in the U.S.A. Six Greek-Americans are among America’s richest people, according to the 2013 Forbes 400 list released on September 16. All of them are self-made and their net …
Read More »Extreme-right Golden Dawn submits anti-racism bill
Racist party Golden Dawn submitted to the Greek Parliament an anti-racism bill proposal. aim of GD is to combat racism against Greeks. The bill proposal wants legal actions in order to combat crime committed by illegal immigrants against Greeks. And furthermore also measures against those who “distort Greek history.” The …
Read More »Athens: African communities dismiss UK’s Channel 4 claims of “Black Panthers” in Greece
African communities in Athens dismiss claims that appeared on a report aired by British Channel 4 that ‘there were patrol brigades named Black Panthers for the self-defense of immigrants against racist attacks by extreme-right Golden Dawn.” According to news website NewsIt, after the Channel 4 report, the Ministry of Public …
Read More »SBS: Golden Dawn wants to be as charitative as “Hezbollah in Lebanon”, says MP
Greece’s neo-nazi party has apparently a noble cause. Only to help people in need, “like the Hezbollah does in Lebanon”. That was said by GD MP Ilias Panagiotaros to Australian network SBS “Dateline” program. Furthermore, the lawmaker suggested that instead of people committing suicide, they should rather “kill those responsible for …
Read More »US State Dept concerned over rising anti-Semitism & racism after Golden Dawn in Parliament
US State Department expressed concern about rising anti-Semitism and racism after the election of extreme-right Golden Dawn to the Greek Parliament in June 2012. In its annual report “International Religious Freedom for 2012”, released on May 20th 2013, the State Department notes among others that “immigrants and refugees fall victim …
Read More »Awarded poet Kiki Dimoula on the …xenophobic bench
Many Greeks were stunned to hear poet Kiki Dimoula sitting on the xenophobic bench. Speaking at an event organized by movement Atenistas, Kiki Dimoula let the public know “I can’t stand migrants in Kypseli. They occupy all benches.” Dimoula reportedly also said “I am afraid to come out of home, because they steal”. …
Read More »Europeans from crisis-hit South flock to Germany seeking work
Mass migration revived in times of debt crisis, recession, austerity and unemployment. From European door to European door, so to say. One million people from the European south moved to Germany in 2012, Germany’s statistics authority said on Tuesday. And majority of the new European migrants came from Spain, Greece …
Read More »Tear gas against racist “Greeks only” food handout, GD lawmaker attacks Athens Mayor
The row between Mayor of Athens and extreme-right Golden Dawn ended in police firing tear gas at Syntagma square on Thursday morning and the mayor to denounce that he was attacked by a GD lawmaker. The extreme-right party has announced to organize a food handout for “Greeks only” in front …
Read More »Why jobless Greeks do not go strawberry picking?
There has been lots of discussions in my environment about why jobless Greeks do not go strawberry picking. Of course, it’s not only strawberries growing in Manolada, Peloponnese. It’s the peaches in Naousa, Macedonia or the apples in Zagora, Pilio just to mention a few of the agricultural products flourishing in Greece. But …
Read More »Manolada: all 3 foremen involved in strawberry-workers shooting arrested
Greek police arrested the three foremen suspected of shooting at immigrant workers demanding outstanding wages. Two of the suspects, 27 and 39 years old, were arrested at a lawyers’ office in Amaliada on Friday morning, just hours after the youngest suspect, 21, was arrested while on the street of the …
Read More »Manolada: shocking video from strawberry fields shooting – injured workers to be deported
Several people lay down, unable to move. Others suffer in pain. More people are standing exciting and speak in a language we don’t understand. The exclusive video uploaded by daily Kathimerini on its website, displays footage filmed short time after the shooting at immigrant workers near the Manolada strawberry fields …
Read More »Manolada: Shots fired on immigrant workers when they asked their wages; 28 hospitalized
At least twenty-eight strawberry pickers from Bangladesh were transferred to hospital with light injuries on Wednesday afternoon after being shot by the foremen of their employer. The incident occurred at 6 p.m. Wednesday on the 41st kilometer of the highway between Patras and Pyrgos in Peloponnese. A large group of …
Read More »Channel 4: police & prosecutor intervene in racist Golden Dawn documentary
The tolerance towards the incredible racism expressed by members of extreme-right party Golden Dawn was of very short duration. Hours after the video started to flood Greek media and internet sites, police intervened and sent the excerpts from the documentary broadcast on UK Channel 4 News to the prosecutor. The Department against …
Read More »UPD Channel 4: Greek student films the true face of Golden Dawn
National Film and Television student Konstantinos Georgousis spent a month in summer 2012 filming members of extreme-right party Golden Dawn – wandering through the streets of Athens, harassing migrants. The result is shocking. So shocking that I refuse to display the video footage here. Speaking to UK Channel 4 News about …
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