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Greece Bans Neo-Nazi Party from Running in Elections
The parliament in Greece approved an amendment late Wednesday to exclude the neo-nazi "Ellines" party from elections.
The party is led by Ilias Kasidiaris, a former deputy and spokesman for the Golden Dawn party, who is currently in jail.
Of the...
Greece
Golden Dawn MP Nikos Kouzilos in Jail
Nikos Kouzilos is the seventh Member of Parliament for Golden Dawn to see his way to jail. The MP is suspected of committing new offenses.
After the Member of Parliament’s deposition the investigating judges and the prosecutor will address charges...
Crime
Leftist's Murder Sparks Outrage Against Golden Dawn
Greek police are investigating the stabbing death of a 34-year-old hip-hop artist that leftist groups said was killed by a gang of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn members who critics say travel in packs to assault immigrants and their perceived foes.
There...
Crime
Kasidiaris Says Holocaust Fiction
The spokesman and a Member of Parliament for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, Ilias Kasidiaris, whipped up controversy while addressing the body after he suggested that he - like his party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos - is a Holocaust denier.
During...
Greece
Golden Dawn Vows Mosque Protest March
Angry that the Greek government is paying to renovate a building that will become the country’s first official mosque, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is reportedly planning to mobilize 100,000 protesters to try to stop it.
The Macedonian International News...
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...
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...
Europe
Golden Dawn Eyes Worldwide Role
British journal the Guardian cited an article concerning the spreading political aspirations of Golden Dawn around the world.
“Emboldened by its meteoric rise in Greece, the far-right Golden Dawn party is spreading its tentacles abroad, amid fears it is acting...
Crime
Golden Dawn MP's Immunity Lifted Again
The Greek Parliament, by an overwhelming vote of 205-3, voted to again lift the immunity of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party MP and spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris so that he can be prosecuted for assaulting two female MP's on a...
Greece
Kasidiaris Cleared In Student Assault Case
The spokesman for the Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, Ilias Kasidiaris, has been acquitted of charges he was involved in the beating and stabbing of a student in 2007 at the Athens Polytechnic school, although a witness testified the...