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The three-judge criminal court tied the party to a string of attacks including the fatal stabbing in 2013 of a left-wing rapper, Pavlos Fyssas.
The party member who stabbed Mr. Fyssas, Giorgos Roupakias, was found guilty of murder on Wednesday.
The party member who stabbed Mr. Fyssas, Giorgos Roupakias, was found guilty of murder on Wednesday.
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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke"> During its time in Greek Parliament, the Golden Dawn party maintained public support by casting itself as patriotic and fighting the system from within, but it retained links with neo-fascist parties in other European countries and the US.
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
Amnesty International said in a statement on Monday that a guilty verdict would boost efforts to crack down on hate crimes.
Speaking before the decision, Elena Karvouni, 68, who was among those gathered, said that it was important for her to be at the court, despite the pandemic.
Elena Kritikou, 50, said that the throngs of young people crowing Alexandras Avenue in Athens and the area outside the court made her feel exhilarated.
“I feel like there is hope for a better tomorrow,” she said.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊🏼" title="Erhobene Faust (mittelheller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust (mittelheller Hautton)">
“I feel like there is hope for a better tomorrow,” she said.
While waiting for the verdict, people chanted antifascist slogans — “Pavlos lives, crush the Nazis,” and “No acquittal for the Nazis” — while the Italian resistance song “Bella Ciao” played in the background. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊🏼" title="Erhobene Faust (mittelheller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust (mittelheller Hautton)">
“It is my duty to be here. I didn’t know Pavlos Fyssas personally but someone else could have also been in his place, it could have been me.”
“We don’t tolerate groups like Golden Dawn — it needs to be condemned,”https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊🏼" title="Erhobene Faust (mittelheller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust (mittelheller Hautton)">
— Giannis, a 19-year-old computing student
“We don’t tolerate groups like Golden Dawn — it needs to be condemned,”
— Giannis, a 19-year-old computing student
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