Golden Dawn Trial

Fascism is fought on the streets, neighbourhoods, schools, public squares, and in places where it attempts to rear its ugly head and to lure and manipulate people.

This is the day on which the Greek justice system will announce its verdict on a long list of crimes with which Golden Dawn has been charged, topped by the murder of Pavlos Fyssas

Like his former MPs who testified previously, one of whom directly implicated Michaloliakos, he denied all charges in an effort to personally save himself and his party.

Anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas murderer, Yorgos Roupakias, constantly repeated: “I was not exactly a Golden Dawn member; I was not a cadre; It was not a Nazi salute; I had had the knife for cutting Styrofoam.”

The neo-Nazis exploited the generalised sense of insecurity and disappointment created by the economic crisis in order to claim a portion of voters who for various reasons wanted to cast an “ani-system” vote.

Nikaia had Golden Dawn’s most organised and violent assault battalions which have been implicated in murder, blackmail, and protection rackets.

The first person charged to testify today was a key actor who set off the chain of events that led to the murder of Fyssas by Golden Dawn's Yorgos Roupakias on a street in Keratsini near Piraeus.

While the Nuremburg trials of Nazi crimes took only one year to complete, nobody knows if and when the trial of Greek neo-Nazis will finish

Fyssas was murdered with a knife by Golden Dawn member Yorgos Roupakias, who was part of a hit squad organised and sent by the extreme right party to kill the rapper