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The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas (Full Investigation; English) on Vimeo
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Shortly after midnight on 18 September 2013, Pavlos Fyssas, a young Greek anti-fascist rapper, was murdered in his home neighbourhood of Keratsini, Athens. The killer and others who participated in the attack were members of the neo-Nazi organisation Golden Dawn.

Golden Dawn have brutally attacked migrants and political opponents ever since their formation in the late ‘80s, with most of their crimes going unpunished through the silent support of the Greek police aligned to their nationalist cause. Following the murder of Fyssas, a Greek citizen, the government was finally forced to make a series of arrests. Sixty-nine members of Golden Dawn, including all of their fifteen parliamentarians, were brought to trial. Charges in the trial, relating to events as far back as 2008, allege that even while holding seats in the Greek parliament, Golden Dawn operated as a criminal organisation. Even as the ongoing trial threatens the existence of Golden Dawn as a political party, the Greek courts remain reluctant to investigate the role of the police in covering up these crimes.

Forensic Architecture was commissioned by the Fyssas family and their legal representatives to reconstruct the events of the night from the audio and video material made available to the court. The resulting video investigation and accompanying report, presented to the Athens courtroom on 10 and 11 September 2018, brings together CCTV footage, recordings of communications between police and emergency services, and witness testimony. We established a precise timeline and reconstruction of the events that led to the murder.

The investigation established that members of Golden Dawn, including senior officials, acted in a co-ordinated manner in relation to the murder, and that DIAS officers were present at the scene before, during and after the murder, and failed to intervene.

Tapped phone calls further reveal Golden Dawn’s police ties.
▻https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/tapped-phone-calls-reveal-golden-dawns-police-ties-180419212215599.html

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Wiretapped phone calls entered into evidence in the ongoing trial of Golden Dawn have further revealed the neo-fascist party’s connections with police.

Sixty-nine members of Golden Dawn, which has 16 seats in Greece’s parliament, are on trial for allegedly operating a criminal organisation.

Last Monday and Wednesday, a series of phone calls and SMS discussions entered into evidence revealed extensive ties and coordination between Golden Dawn members and the Hellenic Police, including the counterterrorism and riot control units.

Other phone calls, which were recorded during wiretapping operations by intelligence services, detailed the communications between party members about the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas on September 18, 2013.

Golden Dawn member Giorgos Roupakias admitted to fatally stabbing Fyssas. Several Golden Dawn members were also arrested and charged. In total, 69 members, including the entire 2013 parliamentary group, have been on trial since 2015.

The trial is expected to conclude this year.

How Lesbos residents drove the far-right Golden Dawn party off the island

Vasiliki Andreadelli won’t let Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party scare her from helping refugees arriving on Lesbos.

▻https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09-12/how-lesbos-residents-drove-far-right-golden-dawn-party-island
#Golden_dawn #aube_dorée #Lesbos #Grèce #extrême_droite #extrême-droite #résistance

[Commentary] | Greece, Europe, and the United States, by James K. Galbraith | Harper’s Magazine
▻http://harpers.org/blog/2015/07/greece-europe-and-the-united-states

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SYRIZA was not some Greek fluke; it was a direct consequence of European policy failure. A coalition of ex-Communists, unionists, Greens, and college professors does not rise to power anywhere except in desperate times. That SYRIZA did rise, overshadowing the Greek Nazis in the Golden Dawn party, was, in its way, a democratic #miracle. SYRIZA’s destruction will now lead to a reassessment, everywhere on the continent, of the “European project.” A progressive Europe—the Europe of sustainable growth and social cohesion—would be one thing. The gridlocked, reactionary, petty, and vicious Europe that actually exists is another. It cannot and should not last for very long.

What will become of Europe? Clearly the hopes of the pro-European, reformist left are now over. That will leave the future in the hands of the anti-European parties, including UKIP, the National Front in France, and Golden Dawn in Greece. These are ugly, racist, xenophobic groups; Golden Dawn has proposed concentration camps for immigrants in its platform. The only counter, now, is for progressive and democratic forces to regroup behind the banner of national democratic restoration. Which means that the left in Europe will also now swing against the #euro.

#gauche #Extrême_droite #UE

Anti-austerity party’s Greek election win is a worry for EU, and maybe Israel
The change of government in Greece is expected to affect its relations with Israel, which had improved beyond recognition in recent years.
By Arye Mekel | Jan. 27, 2015 | Haaretz
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.639180

Greece’s far-left Syriza party achieved a wider margin of victory than predicted by opinion polls leading up to Sunday’s election. The self-proclaimed radical left-wing coalition Syriza received 149 of the Greek parliament’s 300 seats (with 36.3 percent of the vote). That includes the 50-member bonus given to the winning party to guarantee governmental stability.

Although Syriza did not achieve the 151 seats needed in order to govern alone, it wasted no time forming a government after agreeing a deal with the centre-right Independent Greeks.

Outgoing Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ New Democracy only managed 27.8 percent of the votes, for 76 MPs.

The battle for third place ended in a tie between To Potami – a new centrist party headed by journalist and television personality Stavros Theodorakis – and the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. Each has 17 MPs.

This is a great accomplishment for both parties, for different reasons. For To Potami, it is because this was its first election. For Golden Dawn, it’s because the party chairman and several of its MPs have been in jail for almost a year, and the party campaigned. Once again, it is clear that Greece’s neo-Nazi party has taken root.

The Communist Party came in fifth, with 15 seats, while PASOK, the socialist party that ruled for many years, reached only joint sixth place, with 13 MPs, along with the Independent Greeks.

Syriza’s victory is expected to shake European financial markets and rattle the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, which have already pumped more than 300 billion euros into Greece, in the hope of stemming the worst financial crisis in the nation’s history.

Syriza is demanding the repeal of the austerity programs and reforms imposed on Greece. It wants to raise the minimum wage, restore the “13th-month salary” bonus to many sectors of the economy, issue food and electricity vouchers to the poor, and introduce free medical care, among other things. It is not clear where the funding for all this would come from.

Syriza announced before the election that it would initiate talks with the EU over abolishing the austerity and reform agreements, and would draw up a new, more lenient economic recovery program before the summer. Germany and its EU partners insist that Greece must continue to meet its commitments.

New Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, 40, has no prior administrative experience. He is a charismatic leader who knows almost no English and usually goes without a necktie and socks in summer [he turned up at the swearing-in ceremony on Monday without a tie – he’s said he won’t wear one until Greece lands a debt reduction deal].

The change of government is also expected to affect Greece’s relations with Israel, which have improved beyond recognition in the past few years.

While Syriza is not a monolithic bloc, some of its members have been involved in organizing anti-Israel protests, including during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip. At least one senior MP – Theodoris Dritsas, a possible candidate for defense minister – joined one of the anti-blockade flotillas to the Gaza Strip.

It won’t happen right away, but Greece’s current close relationship with Israel, including on defense, could certainly be compromised.

Tsipras has had only one significant meeting with Israeli leaders, meeting with then-President Shimon Peres in Athens. I introduced Peres to Tsipras, who had just become head of the opposition. The meeting was very good and Tsipras, who is 50 years Peres’ junior, listened to him like a pupil before his teacher, and avoided criticism of Israel. I later met other Syriza members, who said that while they were critical of Israel, they were firmly opposed to anti-Semitism.

The author, Israel’s ambassador to Greece from 2010-2014, is a senior fellow at Bar-Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.

Greece prepares trial against Golden Dawn

After spending more than a year compiling 10,000 pages of evidence and digital archives, Greece is set to prosecute the leaders of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party this fall in what promises to be a spectacular trial that could change the country’s political landscape.

▻http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2014/08/25/feature-01
#Grèce #Aube_dorée #procès #violence #xénophobie #racisme #extrême-droite

Leaked Golden Dawn map reveals possible terror plots against immigrants and communist organizations

A new map has been leaked revealing a Golden Dawn plot for an unnamed operation targeting a number of communist organizations, football clubs, immigrant sites - all located in the Exarcheia district of Athens. Of the targeted, top sites include the offices of both the Communist Organization of Greece (KOE), the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), and AEK (an anti-fascist football club notorious for fighting Golden Dawn fascists). The map itself color codes the various sites, designating a particular color for the cafés and parks where immigrants gather.

The map itself was leaked from the Greek police department who seized the map from Golden Dawn members. The map in question lists each of the sites as “targets.” For what exactly is not explicitly known. An incident of mass terror targeting the enemies of these fascists very well could be the precursor to a larger show down with the fascist Golden Dawn.

This party has continued to grow in popularity, despite an increasingly polarized and militant resistance to it, among broadening sections of the society. It is a party with massive support in the riot police of Greece, who are a separate and highly ideological unit apart from the regular police of Greece.

Earlier this year, the Golden Dawn party was banned following their murder of a member of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). That ban has meant a dangerous increasing support of the Golden Dawn, who paint themselves as suppressed patriots. That ban has also meant an alarming rallying of the left in Greece in support of the Greek EU-IMF dominated state, which itself remains firmly in power.

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▻http://kasamaproject.org/threads/entry/leaked-golden-dawn-map-reveals-possible-terror-plots-against-communis

#carte #cartographie #visualisation #extrême-droite #attaques_planifiées #Aube_dorée #migration #racisme #xénophobie #violence #Athènes

A mettre en lien avec les attaques effectivement réalisées par Aube Dorée :
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cc @reka

Two Golden Dawn members killed in drive-by shooting outside party offices

Two members of Golden Dawn have reportedly been shot dead outside the party’s offices in the northern Athens neighborhood of Neo Iraklio.

One of the two men shot dead is reported to be the secretary of the local party office.

According to unconfirmed reports the men were shot by gunmen who were on a motorcycle and wearing helmets.

A third victim was reportedly injured. Police are at the scene and have cordoned off the area.

▻http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_01/11/2013_525862

#Aube_dorée #meurtre #Grèce #Athènes #Neo_Iraklio

... le début d’une #guerre_civile ?

#Golden_Dawn member in the Greek Dublin Unit

One of the policemen working in the Dublin Unit of the new Greek Asylum Service is said to be an open supporter of Golden Dawn, the Greek neo-Nazi party, the newspaper Elefterotypia reported. The newspaper was told that the policeman openly shares his fascist convictions in front of his colleagues and that the Director of the Asylum Service, Maria Stavropoulou, is aware of it but does not intend to take any action. Stavropoulou stated that “this accusation comes to the knowledge of the Asylum Service and Greek Police for the first time” and that the relevant investigations unit has been called upon “to examine whether there are criminal offenses or disciplinary violations have taken place from the staff that has been appointed by the Greek Police to the Asylum service and works at the National Dublin Unit".

▻http://www.asylumineurope.org/news/27-09-2013/golden-dawn-member-greek-dublin-unit

#Grèce #Dublin #aube_dorée #extrême-droite #asile #réfugiés

Greece’s Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Mihaloliakos held

Greek police have arrested the leader of the far-right Golden Dawn party, #Nikolaos_Mihaloliakos, on charges of forming a criminal organisation.

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▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24314319

#Golden_dawn #aube_dorée #Grèce #arrestation

‘Government to take on #Golden_Dawn’

Speaking to the press on September 26, the leader of Golden Dawn, Nikos Michaloliakos said he would neither exclude or confirm a possible mass resignation of the 18 MPs of his party in protest over the investigation of the far right movement, which he argues is politically motivated.

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▻http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/4181711-government-take-golden-dawn

#aube_dorée #grèce #extrême-droite #démissions (?)

Greece, in Anti-Fascist Crackdown, Investigates Police

ATHENS — The photo splashed on the cover of a Greek newspaper this weekend shocked a nation: Pavlos Fyssas, a Greek rapper whose music inveighed against far-right groups, lay dying in a pool of his own blood as his girlfriend cradled him in her arms, moments after he was stabbed in the heart.

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▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/world/europe/greece-in-anti-fascist-crackdown-investigates-police.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

#police #violence #aube_dorée #Grèce #extrême-droite

Police grecque : deux démissions, quatre suspensions, sept mutations.
Enquête sur la passivité de la police face aux actions d’Aube Dorée et sur d’éventuelles infiltrations.

High-level police resignations over Golden Dawn | Home | Latest news from Greece
▻http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.home&id=1497

Lieutenant General Yiannis Dikopoulos, inspector general of police for southern Greece, and Major General Apostolos Kaskanis, general police director of Central Greece, resign following revelations into Golden Dawn activity
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Moreover, the chief of police has suspended four officers and launched a sworn administrative enquiry into an incident on 20 September in Halkida, in Evia.

The officers are accused of failing to intervene at the sight of Golden Dawn members transporting weapons – namely batons, shields and helmets - into the local party offices, which is located a few hundred meters from the police station.

The four officers are also accused of failing to inform their superiors.
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Dendias has also ordered the police’s internal affairs division to investigate whether the force’s ranks have been infiltrated by Golden Dawn.

“In order to facilitate the objectivity” this investigation, the chief of police also announced the transfer of seven officers:
– the major general who heads the security (detective) division of the Hellenic Police
– the colonel in command of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (Ekam)
– the colonel who heads the subdirectorate for organised crime and human trafficking of the Attica police directorate
– the lieutenant colonel in charge of the department for arms and explosives of the subdirectorate for state security of the Attica police directorate
– the head of the YAT riot police platoon of Keratsini, whose members were seen throwing stones at demonstrators during the riot on 18 September
– the commander of the Delta motorbike-mounted police unit
– the police chief of Nikea police station

#Aube_Dorée a du sang grec sur les mains

Aube Dorée n’en est pas à son premier coup de couteau. Mais pour la première fois, ce n’est pas un migrant mais un jeune grec antifasciste qui péri sous les coups du parti #néonazi. Toute la #Grèce est en émoi et demande l’interdiction du parti.

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▻http://www.regards.fr/web/Aube-Doree-a-du-sang-grec-sur-les,7019

Thug Politics

As austerity bites harder in #Greece, the far right #Golden_Dawn party is gaining in popularity, and drawing increasing comparison with the #Nazis.

▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUcB4BQ5oLI

#Golden_Dawn #Aube_dorée #Grèce #néo-nazis

Greek government divided over “anti-racist” law - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/30/anti-m30.html

Greek government divided over “anti-racist” law
By Christoph Dreier
30 May 2013

Over the last week, tensions have risen in the Greek government over draft legislation against racist incitement and state financing of the fascist party Golden Dawn. While the conservative main government party New Democracy (ND) refused to support the law, its coalition partners, the social democratic PASOK and the Democratic Left (DIMAR), are supporting it.

#grèce #crise #racisme

Golden Dawn film: Greek police probe neo-Nazi hate speech
▻http://www.channel4.com/news/golden-dawn-film-greek-police-probe-neo-nazi-hate-speech

A Greek criminal prosecutor has launched an investigation after a report on Channel 4 News showed a member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party threatening to turn immigrants into soap.

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via ... lefigaro.fr ... et oui ;-)

Xenophobic violence in Greece (HRW):

Greece has become anything but hospitable to migrants and asylum seekers over the years, as anti-immigrant sentiment and xenophobic violence spread. In July, we documented dozens of attacks on foreigners, who had been beaten, kicked, and chased down the streets of Athens by gangs of Greeks. Victims included migrants and asylum seekers, children and women, two of them pregnant.

There is also growing evidence that Golden Dawn members and sympathizers are involved in xenophobic attacks.

“They say it’s a free country but then they beat me because I’m a migrant,” Qadir Hossaini, a legal Afghan migrant, told us after a group of people attacked him in September 2011.

Hossaini, like the vast majority of the victims, has little chance to see justice done. We found that attackers are rarely arrested, and police inaction is the rule. Many victims don’t report attacks to the police because of lack of trust, but the police themselves actively discourage many victims from filing complaints. The police tell the victims it’s not worth it because they cannot recognize the assailants, that they should fight back themselves, or, in the case of undocumented migrants, that they could be detained and deported. Those who insist face a 100 Euro fee to file an official complaint.

One positive development, if slow in coming, was the establishment last month by Minister Nikos Dendias of specialized police units to address racist violence. Unfortunately the units do not have a clear mandate to investigate all hate crimes comprehensively, no matter the legal status of the victim, and there are outstanding questions about how the units will be staffed. These issues raise concerns about how effective the units will be.

There is no more excuse for vigilante violence, or for the failure of the police, the courts and government to demonstrate zero tolerance for xenophobic violence by ensuring justice for all victims.

Eva Cossé monitors Greece for Human Rights Watch

►http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/30/xenophobic-violence-greece

#Greece #xenophobia #violence #migration #police #justice
@reka

Europe’s New Fascists - NYTimes.com

►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/opinion/sunday/europes-new-fascists.html?smid=tw-share
By WILLIAM WHEELER
Published : November 17, 2012

Supporters of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party sing the Greek national anthem during a rally in May commemorating Constantinople’s fall in 1453.

ONE evening in September 2011, Ali Rahimi, a 27-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, was hanging around with friends outside his building in central Athens when more than a dozen Greeks approached. Several men set upon Mr. Rahimi, one with a knife. Panicked, he fled into his apartment and fought back, managing to push the men out the door. He found blood gushing from just above his heart, one of five stab wounds in his back and chest.

Mr. Rahimi survived and is staying put for now. But his friend, Reza Mohammed, who was also injured in the attack, is considering what was once unthinkable: moving back to Afghanistan, which he feels would be safer than Greece.

Greece: Gay play production team and cast charged with blasphemy
By Scott Roberts
16 November 2012If found guilty the defendants could face several months in prison

If found guilty the defendants could face several months in prison

Actors and the producer and director of a play in Greece that depicted Jesus Christ as gay have been charged with blasphemy.

Earlier this month, director Laertis Vasiliou was forced to close his production of Corpus Christi in Athens because of political pressure from neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.

RTE reports that charges of “insulting religion” and “malicious blasphemy” have been filed after a bishop lodged a lawsuit against those involved in the play.

The production had been subjected to protests since October, when a Golden Dawn MP was captured shouting homophobic and racist insults at Mr Vasiliou among a violent mob.

If found guilty, Mr Vasiliou and the other defendants could face several months in prison, a trial date has not yet been set.

Mr Vasiliou said he was stunned that prosecutors had chosen to go after him rather than pursue tax evaders and others blamed for driving Greece to near-bankruptcy.

Golden Dawn have increased their power since June’s election and its supporters have been linked to a significant number of attacks on migrant workers, rival political groups and LGBT citizens.

Violences néo-nazies contre les migrants en Grèce
Un témoignage préoccupant de la part de Joanna Tsoni à Athènes

►http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19976841
Alarm at Greek police ’collusion’ with far-right Golden Dawn

This report is 100% accurate and spot on, giving at last, a pretty accurate depiction of what is currently taking place in Greece: Golden Dawn, its collusion with the police, and the abolition of even the last pretenses for the observance of fundamental human and civil rights . Anyone that happens to differ -immigrants, lgbt people, political dissidents, and the list goes on- is a potential moving target in the self-proclaimed “new type of civil war against anyone” of Golden Dawn. Paul Mason has been doing a remarkable and praiseworthy work, reporting on major media, in English, about the situation in Greece, which noone else has yet undertaken with such accuracy and rigour. Joanna Tsoni (from Athens).

►http://www.theinsider.gr/index.php?option=com_contentview=article&id=22215%3Afriki-xylokopisan-kai

you can have a look at this page, even though it is in Greek, but the picture speaks a thousand words - along with my Facebook commentary on that. It is only one of the latest incidents: only 3-4 days old : “This is a picture of an immigrant, who was found beaten-up and chained by his neck on a tree at the island of Salamina, in Greece.

Economic crisis allows fascism to fester like a bad disease, an d Europe is under the illusion that this is not relevant to the European citizens. Aside of any important discussion about the European values, morality and solidarity, it is not a bad moment to discuss about stupidity. The stupidity and narrow mindedness of the policy makers who once believed that there will contain the economic crisis in Greece, or in the European South. Of course, all this would have been unnecessary, if people had spent some time reading about the history of Europe of the previous century.

To my non-Greek friends: loving Greece means pressing your governments not for loans for Greece, but for assisting so that policy measures are implemented in Greece now to face fascism now. Today it’s my neighborhood. Unless there is action now, tomorrow it’s going to be in yours, and it is going to be too late. Too late for everyone.”

Golden Dawn members (proclaimed as “indignant locals”) :
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXc30nnr-PE&feature=youtu.be

For a bit more of a local “flavor” of how these raids of the Golden Dawn members (proclaimed as “indignant locals”) in the immigrant neighbourhoods, smashing shops, community centers and chasing people around, while the police is merely standing and watching (near the end they threaten an african man ordering him to run for his life (from 1:34 on), while the police, are just revving their motorcycle)

►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJntEn4ddA

Here, their members subsituting police, checking the licences of immigrant street vendors during a street celebration, before going on a destruction spree and wreck the kiosks of several of them.

The police was present during this and other similar raids all over Greece, doing nothing. it’s not only that they cannot, but they simply will not take action agaist them, since the largest part of the police force voted for Golden Dawn (Some 80% according to the police station election results - since police vote in special booths installed in the police stations and the results can be very easily monitored)

The last few days the random attacks of Golden Dawn members in the city center have become organised pogroms in the immigrant neighbourhoods, breaking into shops, hitting and chasing people around, smashing the Tanzanian community twice (The second time installing a small explosive mechanism). The president of the community announced a few days ago that the community will cease its operations for fear of further retaliations, like other communities, such as the Afghan have done)

Pictures and videos of the attacks on the Tanzanian community:

http://tinyurl.com/d7tyqfz
(after the attack with the explosives)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=uHyeEJJUeU8&feature=endscreen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfHokESU3FU&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Words actually fail me to keep reporting, right now, on the current situation in Athens regarding the issues raised by Deb Ranjan Sinha.
I would be glad to offer assistance if anyone is interested in more information, and/or raise awareness locally, since the language barrier that afflicts the access of foreign research and media on the local situation is significant, hence the silence, globally.

Joanna Tsoni à Athènes

#grèce #néo-nazis #extrême-droite #racisme #xénophobie

Alarm at Greek police ’collusion’ with far-right Golden Dawn

Last month, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, warned Europe that his country was on the edge of a Weimar Germany-style social collapse. What I have seen on the streets of Athens convinces me this is not rhetoric. The situation is changing rapidly. There is a violent far-right party, its MPs committing and inciting violence with impunity; a police force that cannot or will not prevent Golden Dawn from projecting uniformed force on the streets. And a middle class that feels increasingly powerless to turn the situation round.

Deb Ranjan Sinha

►http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19976841

Greece’s far-right party, Golden Dawn, won 18 parliamentary seats in the June election with a campaign openly hostile to illegal immigrants and there are now allegations that some Greek police are supporting the party.

“There is already civil war,” says Ilias Panagiotaros. If so, the shop he owns is set to do a roaring trade.

It sells camouflage gear, police riot gloves, face masks and T-shirts extolling football hooliganism.

#grèce #néo-nazis #extrême-droite #racisme #xénophobie

Golden Dawn Presses Arrest for Paisios Blasphemy | Greece.GreekReporter.com Latest News from Greece
►http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/09/24/golden-dawn-presses-arrest-for-blasphemy

A 27-year-old man was arrested in Greece for alleged blasphemy against a famous Greek monk, Elder Paisios, after pressure was applied by the ultra-religious neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that has 18 Members of Parliament, Business Insider reported.

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The cyber crime spotted recently in (…) Facebook a page (www.facebook.com/gerontas.pastitsios) which contained blasphemies and insults against Elder Paisios and Orthodox Christianity,” read a press release from the police’s cybercrime unit, claiming police received thousands of complaints about the page from people all over the world. The cybercrime unit took the page offline and seized Evia’s laptop, before arresting him.