June 3, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Convicted leader of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, Nikos Michaloliakos, will return to prison after the judicial council of the Lamia Court of Appeals reversed his temporary release on Monday. 66-year-old Michaloliakos was released form prison beginning of May with a decision of a court in Central Greece on the ground of …
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May 2, 2024
Greece, Politics
Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of neo-nazi Golden Dawn, convicted for establishment of a criminal organization, will be released from prison with a special degree, a decision of the judicial council of Lamia, central Greece. According to media reports on Thursday, the prosecutor rejects the release on grounds that the convicted …
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November 1, 2023
Greece, Politics
Twenty-one Italian Neo-fascists were detained at the Athens airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” and were taken to Police headquarters late on Tuesday. They were denied entry to Greece for “reasons of national security.” They had flown to Athens to participate to events marking the anniversary of the killing of two neo-Nazi Golden …
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October 31, 2023
Greece, Politics
Greek police has been set on high alert due to a planned far-right and neo-Nazis rally in Athens on Wednesday, November 1, even though police has banned rallies throughout Attica from 6 a.m. Wednesday until 6 a.m. Thursday. The rally is being organized to mark the shooting of two members …
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June 26, 2023
Greece, Politics
Far-right “Spartans”, a party unknown to the broader public, entered the new Parliament to be formed after the June 25 elections. Open support to the party was expressed by ilias Kassidiaris, a convicted neo-Nazi and former vice president of criminal organization Golden Dawn. The Spartans won 4.7% of the votes …
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April 27, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
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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April 7, 2023
Greece, Politics
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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February 9, 2023
Greece, Politics
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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January 23, 2023
Greece, Politics
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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October 11, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
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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March 11, 2022
Greece
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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February 23, 2022
Society, Very Mix
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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January 10, 2022
Greece, Politics
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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October 19, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
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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October 18, 2021
Greece, Politics
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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July 3, 2021
Greece, Politics
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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July 1, 2021
Greece, Politics
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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May 7, 2021
Greece, Politics
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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April 27, 2021
Greece, Politics
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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April 22, 2021
Greece, Politics
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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