Golden Dawn
Europe
Der Spiegel Strikes Out At Golden Dawn
The German magazine Der Spiegel is linking racism and violent incidents in Greece to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn part which has been accused of beating immigrants, a charge it has repeatedly denied.
“The deeper the crisis is, the more rigid...
Greece
Greek Tweeters Press Golden Dawn Boycott
Angry that a prominent Greek TV station hosted four members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party on a show, critics have begun a Twitter campaign pushing a boycott of any media that gives time to the extremists, who have...
Greece
SYRIZA Leads in Latest Polls
The company Metrisi has conducted a poll for the newspaper Parapolitika. The poll shows that the Greek political parties SYRIZA and New Democracy are neck and neck in voting intentions, with SYRIZA preceding by 0.4 percent.
According to the polling...
Greece
Immigrants Say Greek Bus Driver Tossed Them
A bus driver in Thessaloniki who reportedly admitted being a member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has been charged by two immigrant passengers with forcing them off because he didn't like the color of their skin. The web...
Greece
Roma-Golden Dawn Conflict At Kalamata Hospital
Kalamata’s Roma community and members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party almost battled at the Kalamata General Hospital after the extreme right-wingers came into the facility demanding to know whether there were foreign nurses or workers there.
Golden Dawn,...
Greece
Boutaris Defends Mosque Youth Prayers
Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris isn't backing down from giving permission to a group of students from the Muslim School of Komotini, in northern Greece, to visit and pray in Thessaloniki’s New (Yeni) Mosque – for the first time in...
Crime
Nazi-Salute Soccer Player Banned Again
Professional soccer player Giorgos Katidis, who was banned for life from Greece's national team for giving a Nazio-like salute after scoring the winning goal for his team in a Greek league match, has also been given a five-match ban...
Crime
Papandreou Won't Testify On Lagarde List
Former prime minister George Papandreou has said he won't appear before a parliamentary committee investigating a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that was never checked for tax evaders at a time his...
Canada
Greek-Canadians Film Captures Golden Dawn
The Greek-Canadian cinematographers Filippos Balabanos and Peter James have written, directed and produced a 29-minute film called Dichotomus which focuses on the sudden and surprise rise of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in Greece, a country which fought Nazis...
Crime
Venizelos Says Rivals Worked Against Him
PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, testifying during a fiery hearing before a Parliamentary committee about his tenure as finance minister and his handling of a list of 2,065 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that wasn't...