Hit squads of neo-Nazi criminal organization and former party in Greek Parliament Golden Dawn raided an exhibition of artist Sergej Andreevsky from North Macedonia in Kalamaria by Thessaloniki on Wednesday afternoon. Wearing hoods and having their faces covered, they hang ribbons on the paintings and threw leaflets with nationalistic content …
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Greek far-right party seeks to defy election ban
A retired senior prosecutor in Greece was named Friday as the new leader of a far-right party as it seeks to sidestep a ban on its participation in an upcoming general election. Participation of the Greeks Party could potentially change the outcome of the May 21 parliamentary election as poll …
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Greece bans political parties set by convicts to run in elections
The amendment banning political parties whose leaders have been convicted of crimes from running in the elections was passed in the Greek parliament late on Wednesday. The amendment tabled by the Interior Ministry was passed with the votes of ruling New Democracy (ND) and the PASOK-KINAL. Main opposition SYRIZA voted …
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Inquiry into Golden Dawn convict MP’s elections campaign from prison
Greek authorities are investigating how ex-Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris has been able to launch a new political party and run a moderately successful election campaign from the maximum-security Domokos Prison. Despite restrictions on communications, the convicted neo-Nazi has 122,000 followers on YouTube – his main campaigning tool – and …
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Plevris vs Plevris: Health Minister criticizes his father for Nazi salute in courtroom
With several days delay, Greece’s conservative Health Minister Thanos Plevris went public to criticize his father for Nazi salute inside the courtroom. His father Costas Plevris, a lawyer and well-known Holocaust-denier, was attending as defense lawyer of convicted MEP Giannis Lagos the second instance trial of neo-nazis Golden Dawn last …
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From Prison to ICU: Golden Dawn leader intubated following Covid-19 infection
Convicted Golden Dawn leader and founder Nikos Michaloliakos has been intubated due to Covid-19 infection. He is currently in the ICU of the university hospital of Larissa, where he was transferred from prison.. The man who has underlying health issues was not vaccinated against the virus. Mihaloliakos was transferred to …
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Convicted Golden Dawn member Patelis back to jail after Supreme Court decision
Convicted Golden Dawn member Giorgos Patelis will return to prison after Greece’s top court, the Supreme Court, agreed to reverse the decision of his early release. A request to reverse the ruling issued by a five-member appeals court had been made by Deputy Supreme Court Prosecutor Haralambos Moysidis. Patelis, 41, …
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Appeals court suspends prison sentence of ex-Golden Dawn MP
A Greek appeals court has suspended the six-year prison sentence of former Golden Dawn MP Nikos Michos. With the ruling, which was issued despite the prosecutor’s recommendation that Michos remain in jail, the former neo-Nazi deputy will imminently be released from the high-security Domokos prison in central Greece until the …
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Supreme Court prosecutor blocks early release of Golden Dawn convict
Greece’s Supreme Court prosecutor has opened the window for the possibility to reverse the decision for the conditional release from prison of the convicted Golden Dawn member Giorgos Patelis. One day after the release decision by the Court of Appeal in Athens, the chief prosecutor of the Supreme Court Vassilis …
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Parole for Golden Dawn convict Patelis; was sentenced 10 years for assistance to Fyssas’ murder
A year after the leaders of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn were jailed, the head of the local branch in Nikaia, Giorgos Patelis was set free. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for assistance in the the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas.and for being a member of a criminal organization. …
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GD Pappas in prison, woman who harbored him gets suspended sentence
Golden Dawn convict Christos Pappas, sits in isolation cell in Domokos prison since Friday afternoon and the woman who harbored him received 30 months imprisonment but was set free. Pappas was arrested in Zografou suburb of Athens on Thursday night after been on the run since October 2020. It was …
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Fugitive Golden Dawn convict Christos Pappas arrested in Athens suburb
Fugitive Golden Dawn convict Christos Pappas was arrested in Zografou suburb of Athens late on Thursday. He was reportedly living in an apartment registered under a different name. According to latest information, it was a woman offering him shelter. 59-year-old Pappas was second in command and right hand of the …
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Belgian court OKs extradition of Greek far-right lawmaker Lagos
Greek far-right member of the European Parliament IOannis Lagos arrested last month in Belgium can be extradited to Greece to serve a 13-year prison sentence, the Brussels prosecutor’s office said Friday. The office said Ioannis Lagos has until Monday to appeal the Brussels court’s ruling that the European arrest warrant …
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+++ Golden Dawn convict Lagos arrested in Brussels after EP lifted his MEP immunity
Belgian police arrested Golden Dawn convict Ioannis Lagos, just a few hours after the European Parliament published the voting results to lift his immunity. The ex MEP was arrested in his home in Brussels Tuesday noon and he tweeted “from the police car” confirming his arrest. the Belgian authorities enforced …
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European Parliament in favor of lifting immunity of convicted far-right Lagos
The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee approved a draft recommendation on Thursday that will lift immunity of convicted far-right , former Golden Dawn, MEP Ioannis Lagos. In favor of lifting immunity voted 22 and 2 against. For the issue of punishment for the Turkish flag copy Lagos teared apart 23 …
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Prosecutor appeals for longer jail sentences for Golden Dawn leaders
A prosecutor has filed an appeal to request longer sentences for the already convicted leadership of the neo-nazi party Golden Dawn on Thursday. The second-level appeals court motion by prosecutor Stelios Kostarellos, who was alternate prosecutor in the trial that concluded last week, focused specifically on the leading members of …
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Court rules 38 Golden Dawn convicts, incl leaders, ex MPs, straight to jail
The whole leadership of the neo-nazi Golden Dawn will go straight to jail, the Appeals Court in Athens ruled on Thursday. In its historic decision, the Court moved in total opposite direction of the prosecutor’s recommendations for suspended sentences and decided that 38 out of 50 GD convicts will not …
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Prosecutor insists on suspended sentences for Golden Dawn convicts
Prosecutor Adamantia Economou on Wednesday insisted on her recommendation that all former MPs of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party will receive suspended sentences until courts examine their appeals. The prosecutor’s proposals refer to those the court convicted and sentenced to prison terms for leading or participating in a “criminal organization.” …
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Judge questions prosecutor’s claims Golden Dawn convicts have “clean criminal records”
Τhe Appeals Court in Athens adjourned after a short session of Tuesday, after the presiding judge questioned the claim of state prosecutor that the Golden Dawn leadership had a “prior clean criminal records” and would therefore remain out of jail until the case is examined at second instance court. Judge …
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Prosecutor proposes suspended sentences for Golden Dawn leadership
The state prosecutor in Golden Dawn trial proposed on Monday that the sentences of those convicted to over 10 years imprisonment be suspended pending their convicts’ appeal. Exempted from sentence suspension should be the murderer of 33-year-old rapper Pavlos Fyssas, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prosecutor Adamantia Oikonomou has …
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