Verdict voor de griekse fascisten

[Tamam]

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Wat is daar mis mee?

of nick betekent:

"racially holy war"

gij wilt een raciale oorlog , moeilijk om u serieus te nemen.

wat er mis met gouden dageraad is? paar gewonden, doden op hun geweten. leider ontkent holocaust en deed paar keer "de romeinse groet". een parlementslid sloeg op tv zonder schaamte een vrouw omdat ze hem durfde tegen te spreken.

hun logo is een flauw afkooksel van de NSDAP nazi vlag.

dunno. nog een hoop dingen. ik vrees dat je geweld enzoverder tegen vluchtelingen en linkse mensen ok vind, met jouw "racially holy war" nick.

[Pandareus]

De laatste van de veroordeelde fascisten is eindelijk opgepakt.

Police in Greece have arrested the fugitive deputy leader of neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn, who had been on the run since he was sentenced to more than 13 years in jail in October.
Christos Pappas had evaded justice since a landmark trial handed down sentences to more than 50 Golden Dawn defendants on charges including running a criminal organisation, murder, assault and illegal weapons possession.

Pappas, 60, was sentenced to 13 years in prison, but went missing a day later. He defied a court order to turn himself in, and speculation grew that he had fled the country.

He was arrested on Thursday by anti-terrorist police at a flat in the central Athens district of Zografou.

Pappas had reportedly not left the flat since October, but the building was put under surveillance last week after police received a tip-off that the fugitive was hiding there, local media reported.

A 52-year-old Ukrainian woman who was said to be sheltering him was also arrested and will be charged with aiding and abetting a criminal, according to the Proto Thema newspaper.

Pappas and the unnamed woman are set to appear before prosecutors on Friday.

Pappas, a mustachioed former furniture store owner, was an unrepentant fascist once caught on camera teaching his own children the Nazi salute.

His lieutenant general father was part of the 1967 army coup that installed a seven-year dictatorship in Greece.

Pappas was considered a leading ideologue of Golden Dawn and was the group’s de facto No 2.
He was the last of the Golden Dawn cadre to evade justice, after former senior member Ioannis Lagos, a member of the European parliament, was arrested in Brussels in April, and extradited the following month.

Pappas had also evaded arrest in 2013, when senior Golden Dawn members had been rounded up after the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, the crime that led to the organisation’s undoing.

At the time, police searching Pappas’s home had found swastika flags, two German army helmets and bottles stamped with images of Benito Mussolini.

The Golden Dawn trial, which began in 2015, has been described as one of the most significant in Greek political history.

The court accepted that the openly xenophobic and antisemitic group operated under a military-style leadership that encouraged the beating of migrants and political opponents.

Prosecutors outlined how Golden Dawn’s militias roamed the streets, often armed with knuckle-dusters, crowbars and knives.

Other crimes tied to the group include the murder of a Pakistani migrant in 2013, and beatings of four Egyptian fishermen in 2012 and a group of Communist unionists in 2013.

The fact that Pappas managed to escape last year while supposedly being watched by police – and with international attention focused on the trial – was an embarrassment to the Greek authorities.

In a statement on Thursday, the main opposition Syriza party chastised the centre-right administration for allowing the fugitive to “slip through [police] fingers”.

It added: “It only needed nine months … to do what should have happened on the first day: arrest the neo-Nazi Christos Pappas.”
Government spokesperson Aristotelia Peloni said: “With Christos Pappas’s arrest, the chapter of organised crime closes definitively.”

The organisation’s founder and longterm leader Nikos Michaloliakos has also been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison, alongside several senior party members.
The former fringe party won 18 seats in parliament in 2012 after tapping into anti-austerity and anti-migrant anger during Greece’s decade-long debt crisis.

At the height of its power in 2013, the party was polling at 10%, making it Greece’s third most popular party.

But its influence began to ebb as the group’s criminal activities came to light in trial testimony.

It failed to win a single seat in the last parliamentary election in 2019.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...up-golden-dawn

[patrickve]

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of nick betekent:

"racially holy war"

gij wilt een raciale oorlog , moeilijk om u serieus te nemen.

Wat is daar mis mee, met een raciale oorlog, in vergelijking met, zeg maar, een oorlog voor olie ?

[Pandareus]

Het proces in beroep start tegen de Griekse veroordeelde neo-nazi's van Golden Dawn. Die kregen straffen tussen 5 en 13 jaar, wat procureurs eigenlijk te weinig vinden.

De maximum strafmaat is 15 jaar.

The imprisoned protagonists of Greece’s once powerful neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party will seek to overturn prolonged prison terms in an appeals court trial due to open amid anti-fascist protests in Athens this week.

Eighteen months after members were convicted of operating a criminal organisation that masqueraded as a political party, appellate judges will start hearing the case afresh on Wednesday.

“The outcome is going to be hugely significant,” said Petros Constantinou, who coordinates Keerfa, the country’s highly active anti-fascist front. “At a time when the war in Ukraine has emboldened fascists Europe over, the message has to be one of zero tolerance.”

In a replay of scenes last seen in the Greek capital when a lower tribunal of all-female judges announced its landmark decision in October 2020, thousands of unionists and leftist protesters are expected to demonstrate outside the court complex when the trial begins. Only this time they will be chanting “Keep the fascists in prison and stop the racist attacks”.

“Since early May there has been a surge of violent incidents against migrants in central Athens,” said Constantinou. “People have been knifed and shot at by hit squads employing tactics that have been similar to those we’ve seen in the past. Greek justice has already found Golden Dawn to be what it is, a criminal organisation. We want its leaders to be given harsher sentences than the 13-year [terms] they’ve already received.”

The group took Europe by storm as Greece’s debt crisis unfolded. Not since the restoration of democracy with the collapse of military rule in 1974 had a party as brazenly thuggish or ideologically extreme – its emblem bore an uncanny resemblance to the swastika – been catapulted into Athens’ parliament.

Exploiting popular fury at austerity policies demanded by international lenders to stave off bankruptcy, the anti-immigrant ultra-nationalists won 7% of the vote in 2012, consolidating their position as Greece’s third biggest political force.

In what would become a blood-soaked reign of terror on the streets of the capital’s poorer neighbourhoods, hit squads commandeered by specially trained party members targeted migrants, trade unionists and leftwing sympathisers.

It took the 2013 assassination of Pavlos Fyssas, an anti-fascist rapper, to trigger the outrage that would gradually set in motion the group’s downfall.

When finally arrested, MPs were discovered to be in possession of Third Reich memorabilia, with Nikolaos Michaloliakos, who had founded the neo-Nazi movement in the 1980s, the self-anointed leader of an organisation run along paramilitary lines.

In the marathon five-year trial that followed, Golden Dawn was exposed as a criminal gang that had used the mantle of political legitimacy to terrorise its way into the public consciousness. More than 50 cadres, including almost all of its lawmakers, were found guilty of charges that ranged from murder to illegal possession of weapons. Almost all, including the party’s core leadership, argued they were the victim of political persecution.

After narrowly failing to cross the 3% threshold to win entry into the 300-seat house in the country’s last general election three years ago, the extremist group has all but dismantled amid defections, feuds and infighting.

Hospitalised with Covid earlier this year, Michaloliakos, an ardent anti-vaxxer, was recently moved from an intensive care unit to a rehabilitation centre because of mobility problems. He will not be attending the appeal hearing.

But the far right in Greece is far from gone. Although the initial verdict – the highlight of a trial hailed as a pivotal point in Greek political history – is unlikely to be overturned, the race is on to fill the gap left by Golden Dawn.

“It took months for the [first] court to even write up the judgment, which runs to 12,700 pages and is backed by extraordinary detail and analysis,” said Dimitris Psarras, a leftwing writer and key prosecution witness whose dogged investigations played a central role in uncovering the organisation’s dark ideology and wanton embrace of violence. “In my view there’s a very slim chance it could change on appeal.”
The conspiratorial Greek Solution party has already helped soak up some of Golden Dawn’s lost votes. But looming recession, an inflation rate of over 10% and soaring tensions with Turkey, could further help the extremists, analysts fear.

From his prison cell, Ilias Kasidiaris, once Michaloliakos’s trusted lieutenant, has managed to ensure that his breakaway party, Greeks for the Fatherland, has gained momentum.

“It is polling consistently at around 2% and may well be higher, proof that the story of the populist radical right in Greece is far from over,” said ProfVasiliki Georgiadou, a specialist in far-right militancy at Panteion University. “We live at a time of nationalist myths, economic uncertainty and growing anti-westernism, all of which will help vindicate their narrative.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...scist-protests

Het ziet ernaar uit dat PhDW, Anke VD Meersch, zatte Jan Penris en Frank Creyelman van het Vlaams Blok hun soortgenoten nog niet gaan kunnen bezoeken. (tenzij in de gevangenis dan toch)

[daiwa]

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Wie gaat "operatie vergassing" leiden?

Panda?

[daiwa]

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Ik dacht dat vergassen eerder uw voorkeur was.

Inderdaad !