Historic Verdict on Golden Dawn to Be Announced This Week

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Historic Verdict on Golden Dawn to Be Announced This Week

Oct 3, 2020

ATHENS -- The verdict in the trial of the ultra-right party Golden Dawn - a trial unprecedented on a global scale in recent history - is due to be announced by an Athens Criminal Appeals Court next week, on Wednesday, October 7 at 11:00.

With its ruling, the court is called on to decide whether the accused are guilty or not guilty of forming a criminal organisation and to provide an answer to an issue of critical legal and social importance, which will have a profound impact on the present and future, regarding a political party that was elected to the Greek and European parliaments in three separate elections. Based on the charges, Golden Dawn was a criminal organisation that had the legal form of a party and enjoyed enhanced constitutional protection as a result.

In an interview concerning the upcoming verdict, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hailed his own party's role in taking down Golden Dawn and bringing its leader to trial for the murder of Pavlos Fyssas.

"Our country's experience from the disastrous passage of the nazi formation of Golden Dawn was traumatic, painful and unfortunately, very bloody... I feel satisfaction that the arguments of democracy banished it from parliament and the rule of law from our daily lives," he said to the newspaper "Efimerida ton Syntakton".

The lesson learned from this episode, he added, was that it grew out of blind populism, "which established lies in public discourse, which promoted easy and simplistic answers to difficult and complex questions, and which united opposing party slogans under the same extreme behaviour. On this soil of grey confusion, the seed of black propaganda fell and the parasite of those nostalgic for Hitler grew," Mitsotakis said.

He noted that the political world was too slow to react in the face of the danger and "the most vulgar and horrific expression of demagoguery, which is fascism." He said this was permitted by forces "that in the name of temporary interest, left cracks through which the para-state could open the door of politics".

He emphasised that New Democracy was and remains an opponent of Golden Dawn and of any force undermining the democratic regime and its smooth operation, leading the drive to bring those that broke the law to justice.

Noting that Greece had suffered as few other countries from nazism, Mitsotakis noted that "there is no room in our country for its supporters and imitators. Bigoted nationalism we counter with genuine patriotism, totalitarianism with pluralism, conflict with dialogue, division with unity and extremism with reason. At the same time, we translate the negative experience into a positive and fertile national legacy."

https://www.thenationalherald.com/gr...s_week-946157/

[catgeorge]

Greek politics is a shambles - Nazis my ass they are the closest thing Greece has to Metaxism and pure Greek nationalism.

Kasidiaris Greeks for the Homeland is decent but has a very soft underbelly.

I am not sure when Greeks will realise Greece needs to in the hands of Orthodox priests and men of steel and not liberals, neo liberals, marxists, technocrats, beaurocrats and all this western european garbage.

Greece is born from the flesh of Klephts and Armatoloi and now controlled by financial systems. Give Greece its soul back.

[Cristiano viejo]

Fuck mitsosakis!

[Mortimer]

We will see if Zeno goes to prison lol

[Ujku]

Greek politics is a shambles - Nazis my ass they are the closest thing Greece has to Metaxism and pure Greek nationalism.

Kasidiaris Greeks for the Homeland is decent but has a very soft underbelly.

I am not sure when Greeks will realise Greece needs to in the hands of Orthodox priests and men of steel and not liberals, neo liberals, marxists, technocrats, beaurocrats and all this western european garbage.

Greece is born from the flesh of Klephts and Armatoloi and now controlled by financial systems. Give Greece its soul back.

Ah yes , the typical Greek nationalist that lives in Australia , with Australian money and an australian big house .
Come and live with 600 euros , raise your kids with that wage and buy a house .

[catgeorge]

Ah yes , the typical Greek nationalist that lives in Australia , with Australian money and an australian big house .
Come and live with 600 euros , raise your kids with that wage and buy a house .

Whats that got anything to do with it. Majority of your taxes goes to German banks...my parents still run a business in Greece I know what its like.

Greeks are not standing up for themselves and carve their own future and fuck immigrants that dictate what path Greeks should take.

[Dard]

God watch over Greece.

[King Niko]

zito i chrysi avgi

Golden Dawn was the righteous path for that country, any person speaking down upon them are in the wrong and probably against the Greek state. The political position they are in is in political shambles. Seriously, horrible position. Metaxism is what they need, honestly another Georgios Grivas would be the move, with a strong political leader. Greece needs to expand its distance from western europe and focus upon itself. Western ways destroy smaller economies, capitalism only works for those who have the head start.

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Victims' lawyers decry lenient sentence proposals by Greek state prosecutor in Golden Dawn trial

Oct 13, 2020

THE panel of three judges in the five-and-a-half-year Golden Dawn trial were in the final stages of determining sentences on Tuesday night after convicting the 68 defendants a week ago.

They had heard the sentencing proposal of state prosecutor Adamantia Economou and representations from lawyers for the members of the neonazi party convicted of crimes including murder, attempted murder, and membership and direction of a mafia-type organisation.

Ms Economou, whose role is to represent the state not the victims in the process, proposed sentences ranging from life imprisonment for Giorgos Roupakias for the 2013 murder of anti-racist rapper Pavlos Fyssas; through 13 years for Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos and six other “directors of the criminal organisation”; to seven years for the “members of the criminal organisation.”

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/arti...secutor-golden

[Zeno]

zito i chrysi avgi

Golden Dawn was the righteous path for that country, any person speaking down upon them are in the wrong and probably against the Greek state. The political position they are in is in political shambles. Seriously, horrible position. Metaxism is what they need, honestly another Georgios Grivas would be the move, with a strong political leader. Greece needs to expand its distance from western europe and focus upon itself. Western ways destroy smaller economies, capitalism only works for those who have the head start.

Well, Greece had followed laissez faire capitalism under most of the 20th century, especially under Metaxas and Papadopoulos, until the 1980s. It worked well for us, because we became one of the richest countries per capita back then in the 70s...