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
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.
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
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.
Χειροπέδες σε Μιχαλολιάκο, Κασιδιάρη, Παναγιώταρο, Λαγό
Στο πλαίσιο αστυνομικής επιχείρησης, νωρίς το πρωί του Σαββάτου, συνελήφθησαν μέλη του ηγετικού πυρήνα της Χρυσής Αυγής, ανάμεσα στα οποία ο ΓΓ της Νίκος Μιχαλολιάκος και οι βουλευτές Ηλίας Κασιδιάρης, Ηλίας Παναγιώταρος και Γιάννης Λαγός. Τις εξελίξεις δρομολόγησε παραγγελία της Εισαγγελίας του Αρείου Πάγου, αφού τεκμηριώθηκε ότι το νεοναζιστικό κόμμα συνιστά εγκληματική οργάνωση. Προηγήθηκε τα ξημερώματα η ενημέρωση της κυβέρνησης, όπως και σύσκεψη των υπουργών Δημόσιας Τάξης, Δικαιοσύνης και Εσωτερικών.
Coup d’arrêt aux néonazis d’Aube dorée en Grèce
Dix jours après l’assassinat du rappeur grec Pavlos Fyssas, connu sous le nom de scène Killah P, tué par un militant néonazi affilié à Aube dorée, la police grecque a porté samedi matin un coup d’arrêt à ce mouvement.
▻http://www.rue89.com/2013/09/28/coup-darret-neo-nazis-daube-doree-grece-246147
Arrestato Nikos Michaloliakos,
leader dei neo-nazi di «alba dorata»
L’accusa è di appartenere a una organizzazione criminale. Con lui sono stati presi il deputato e portavoce del partito Ilias Kassidiairis e altri due parlamentari. Tra gli arrestati anche il segretario della sezione del quartiere di Nikea, a cui apparteneva Yorgos Rupakias, l’assassino di Fyssas, reo confesso
▻http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2013/09/28/news/arrestato_leader_alba_dorata-67436872
Police finds three guns at Golden Dawn leader’s house
Police found three unregistered guns at the house of Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos during the morning raid that led to his arrest in tandem with the arrests of party spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris and Greater Piraeus deputy Yiannis Lagos, Skai reported on Saturday afternoon citing police sources.
▻http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_28/09/2013_520682
Vague d’arrestations des membres d’Aube dorée
Le fondateur du parti néo-nazi Aube dorée, le député Nikolaos Michaloliakos, a été arrêté le 28 septembre. Une vaste opération de police contre le mouvement d’extrême-droite est en cours.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/revue-de-presse/2013/09/28/vague-d-arrestations-des-membres-d-aube-doree
Le leader d’AUBE DORÉE menotté
Grèce : vaste coup filet chez les néo-nazis d’Aube dorée
Samedi 28 septembre, les autorités grecques ont frappé un grand coup contre le parti néo-nazi fondé en 1980 par Nikolaos Michaloliakos. Fort de 18 députés, Aube Dorée fait régner la terreur, s’attaquant physiquement aux migrants, aux militants de gauche, aux LGBT. À l’origine de ce vaste coup de filet, le meurtre d’un rappeur antifasciste qui a choqué l’opinion publique.
Photo de la « prise » de la police grecque chez le député de l’Aube dorée Christos Pappas, un véritable attirail nazi pic.twitter.com/ft4GVkHFVV
▻https://twitter.com/ElisaPerrigueur/status/384983820451078145/photo/1
#Greece : Two more #GoldenDawn MPs behind bars ▻http://glykosymoritis.blogspot.com/2014/01/greece-two-more-golden-dawn-mps-behind.html … #rbnews #ertopen #gr2014eu @teacherdude pic.twitter.com/i5aClYt08Q
▻https://twitter.com/glykosymoritis/status/422309882247643136/photo/1
2 Far-Right Greek Lawmakers Are Accused of Criminal Activity
ATHENS — Two lawmakers from Greece’s far-right party, Golden Dawn, were ordered to be taken into custody late on Saturday on charges of joining and directing a criminal organization. The decision was part of a government crackdown on the party, which has been condemned by European authorities as neo-Nazi and violent.
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/world/europe/2-far-right-greek-lawmakers-are-accused-of-criminal-activity.html?smid=tw-s
Another Golden Dawn MP placed behind bars
Another Golden Dawn MP was placed behind bars on Sunday, meaning a third of the Greek far-right party’s 18 lawmakers are currently being held in pre-trial detention.
▻http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_12/01/2014_535573
‘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.
▻http://www.presseurop.eu/files/kathimerini-100_3.jpg?1380275573
▻http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/4181711-government-take-golden-dawn
#aube_dorée #grèce #extrême-droite #démissions (?)
‘Gang under the spotlight’
Six MPs and 13 members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party were arrested on September 28 and 29 as part of the ongoing investigation into the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas.
▻http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/4186791-gang-under-spotlight
‘Golden Dawn godfather’
Telephone recordings made by Greek secret services monitoring Golden Dawn have revealed that Yannis Lagos, one of the neo-Nazi party’s 18 MPs, was informed of an impending attack on rapper Pavlos Fyssas in advance of the singer’s murder in the early hours of September 19.
▻http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/4190021-golden-dawn-godfather
Lest we forget
“The people don’t forget, they hang fascists,” goes a chant that Greeks have been hearing for decades. This year, seeing the fascists being put behind bars will suffice for most.
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.
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/world/europe/greece-in-anti-fascist-crackdown-investigates-police.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
‘Secret service was listening before murder’
Greece’s supreme court decided on September 25 to launch an investigation into links between army reservists and the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, and to proceed with the examination of telephone conversations recorded by the Greece’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).
Eleftherotypia explains that Golden Dawn had already been under NIS surveillance for several months when Pavlos Fyssas was murdered in the early hours of the morning of September 18. According to the daily, the transcript of the recordings could show that the murderer received an order to assassinate Pavlos Fyssas, and the source of the order may have been a Golden Dawn member of parliament.
More than 10,000 people took to the streets of Athens on September 25 protesting against the neo-Nazi party and to pay tribute to the murdered rapper, reports the daily’s front page.
▻http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/4177201-secret-service-was-listening-murder
According to the daily, the transcript of the recordings could show that the murderer received an order to assassinate Pavlos Fyssas, and the source of the order may have been a Golden Dawn member of parliament.
#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.
▻http://www.regards.fr/web/Aube-Doree-a-du-sang-grec-sur-les,7019
Police Raid Golden Dawn Office in Athens After a Killing
ATHENS — The police raided the offices of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn Party on Wednesday, and government officials scrambled for ways to clamp down on the group after thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in several Greek cities to protest the killing of an antifascist activist that the police attributed to a Golden Dawn sympathizer.
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/world/europe/police-raid-golden-dawn-office-in-athens-after-a-killing.html?_r=0
Antifascist worker and hip hop artist murdered by Golden Dawn nazis in Piraeus
From eye-witness report: "Around 24:00 a group of 15-20 fascists, wearing black t-shirts and military pants and boots, was deployed on P. Tsaldari street. During that time, Killah P was walking with his girlfriend and another couple when he was spotted by the fascists shouting “what are you looking for here, you know there is no place for you in this hood”. The fascists hunted the two couples down P. Tsaldari street towards Gr. Lampraki avenue, where from another street, a new group of around 10 fascists came out and surrounded the guys. At that time, a car drove opposite in an one-way street, stopped, the driver came out and stabbed Killah P once in the heart and once in the abdomen (the stabbing on his abdomen had an upside-down “L” shape).
▻https://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=en&article_id=1491319
GRÈCE • « C’est l’attaque de trop »
« Ça suffit ! » titre le quotidien, ce jeudi 19 septembre, qui parle de « choc dans la population après le meurtre de Pavlos Fyssas, 34 ans, rappeur antifasciste respecté, tué de plusieurs coups de couteau par un militant d’Aube dorée ». Ce parti néonazi est entré au Parlement grec en juin 2012, et il est représenté par 18 députés. Pour grimper dans les sondages, Aube dorée n’hésite pas à surfer sur l’explosion du chômage et la désespérance des Grecs. Ses activistes sont présumés coupables de multiples agressions contre des migrants, mais pas seulement.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/une/2013/09/19/c-est-l-attaque-de-trop
#Grèce : la police n’est pas intervenue pour empêcher le #meurtre de Pavlos #Fyssas par l’#Aube_Dorée
Le 18 septembre 2013, un militant antifasciste, #Pavlos_Fyssas, était tué au couteau par un membre d’Aube Dorée lors d’échauffourées. Les médias grecs viennent de publier la retranscription d’une conversation de policiers présents sur place qui prouve que leur hiérarchie leur a recommandé de ne pas intervenir.
Thug Politics
As austerity bites harder in #Greece, the far right party is gaining in popularity, and drawing increasing comparison with the #Nazis.
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.
via ... lefigaro.fr ... et oui ;-)
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.
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.