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Golden Dawn Found Guilty of Running Criminal Organization in Greece
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Oct 07, 2020 02:17pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Author | Niki Kitsantonis and Iliana Magra |
| News Date | Wednesday, October 7, 2020 02:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ATHENS — In a landmark verdict in Greece’s highest-profile political trial in decades, an Athens court on Wednesday found the neo-fascist party Golden Dawn guilty of running a criminal organization as it rose to prominence during the country’s financial crisis, systematically targeting migrants and left-wing critics.
The ruling came more than five years after the trial began in a makeshift courtroom in Greece’s largest high-security prison near Athens, and as at the beginning of the trial, none of the party officials were in the courtroom where the verdict was announced.
But thousands of Greek citizens had gathered outside the court on Wednesday, waving banners reading, “They are not innocent,” “Nazis out” and “Life terms to the murderers,” as some 2,000 police officers patrolled the area and helicopters and drones circled above.
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. |
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