Greek court sentences neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn leader Nikos Mihaloliakos and his inner circle 13-year prison sentences
Presiding judge Maria Lepenioti announces sentences during the trial of leaders and members of the Golden Dawn movement, in Athens, Greece, October 14, 2020.
Presiding judge Maria Lepenioti read out the sentences against Nikos Michaloliakos and other former lawmakers on Wednesday., an organisation founded as a neo-Nazi group in the 1980s that rose to become Greece’s third-largest political party during a major financial crisis in the previous decade.Other former lawmakers were sentenced to 5-7 years in prison for being members of a criminal group. The court will decide later this week if any of the sentences can be suspended.
Magda and Irini Fyssa, mother and sister of anti-racist Greek rapper Pavlos Fyssas, who was killed in 2013 by Golden Dawn supporter Giorgos Roupakias, attend the trial in Athens, Greece, October 14, 2020. Golden Dawn's top figures were arrested in 2013, after the killing of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas by a party supporter prompted huge protests across Greece and led to a government crackdown on the party. Police found unlicensed weapons and Nazi flags in the homes of party members.
More than 50 defendants were convicted of crimes ranging from running a criminal organisation, murder and assault to illegal weapons possession.
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