(Interview: Jacobin, 12/1/2016. Alp Kayserilioğlu is a freelance communist journalist in Greece. Ilias Tsampardoukas is a lawyer with Golden Dawn Watch, which monitors the ongoing legal case against the fascist party). The trials against Golden Dawn (or Chrysi Avgi) have at last begun. In April 2015, sixty-nine individuals from the Greek fascist party were charged with founding…
Τη Δευτέρα 4 Γενάρη 2016, η ραδιοφωνική εκπομπή “Με θέση και υπογραφή” της Αλεξάνδρας Χριστακάκη και της Τζούλης Τζίγκα (Στο Κόκκινο – 105,5 FM) ήταν αφιερωμένη στη δίκη της Χρυσής Αυγής και την άκρα δεξιά στην Ευρώπη. Καλεσμένοι ήταν ο δικηγόρος της πολιτικής αγωγής στη δίκη της Χρυσής Αυγής Θανάσης Καμπαγιάννης και ο δημοσιογράφος στην…
Giorgos Roupakias, l’assassin présumé du rappeur antifasciste Pavlos Fyssas, le 7 mai 2015 près d’Athènes. AFP PHOTO/ Louisa Gouliamaki. (Par Charlotte Stiévenard Publié, correspondante de RFI à Athènes, 04-11-2015) Le plus gros procès criminel de l’histoire de la Grèce se poursuit depuis un peu plus de dix mois. C’est celui du parti néo-nazi Aube dorée. Soixante-neuf personnes…
Διακρίνονται ο Λύρης (δεύτερος από δεξιά) και ο Ιωάννου (τέταρτος από δεξιά), μαζί με την αντιπροσωπεία της Casa Pound. (Κείμενο: Αλέξανδρος Κόντης, Real News, 22/11/2015) Μία μέρα μετά τις αιματηρές επιθέσεις η Χρυσή Αυγή έδινε το παρόν σε σύναξη ναζιστικών οργανώσεων στη γαλλική πρωτεύουσα Για να παρευρεθούν σε σύναξη ρατσιστικών και ακραίων φασιστικών οργανώσεων, μέλη…
(This is the translated transcript of the video that was revealed today. Patelis is the leader of the local organisation of Nikea and a defendant for the murder of Pavlos Fyssas and for directing a criminal organisation. Lagos is the Piraeus MP of Golden Dawn and a defendant for directing a criminal organisation. In the…
(Text: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 9/2015) After many years of bloody action on the streets, the leaders and officials of Golden Dawn are in the dock facing charges of directing and participating in a criminal organisation. No special legislation or political intervention was required. All that was needed was the state’s decision to allow the criminal…
(Introduction: Left Flank, 17/09/2015) On the occasion of the second anniversary of the murder of Greek antifascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, we are publishing a detailed account and political analysis of the crime and the neo-Nazi organisation behind it, Golden Dawn, written by THANASIS KAMPAGIANNIS, one of the lawyers involved in the trial. Left Flank strongly…
Ο συλληφθείς ως δράστης της επίθεσης John Russel Houser. Ενας 58χρονος ένοπλος άνοιξε πυρ μέσα σε κατάμεστη κινηματογραφική αίθουσα στην πόλη Λαφαγιέτ της Λουιζιάνα, χθες το απόγευμα, σκοτώνοντας δύο ανθρώπους και τραυματίζοντας επτά, και στη συνέχεια αυτοκτόνησε, ανακοίνωσε η αστυνομία σύμφωνα με Τα Νέα. Το περιστατικό σημειώθηκε στις 19:00 τοπική ώρα σε μία κατάμεστη αίθουσα…
This is the recording of a discussion that took place in Berlin on Friday, 24 April 2015. “Greece: The Case of Golden Dawn” was part of the series “Insight NSU”, organized by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein (RAV) and NSU Watch; co-financed by Heinrich Böll Foundation and Holtfort Foundation. The Athens-based lawyer and…
Después de un período de impunidad escandalosa, la organización nazi Amanecer Dorado se enfrenta hoy por primera vez con la perspectiva de responder por sus crímenes. Este desarrollo no hubiera sido posible sin la movilización continua de miles de antifascistas durante más de dos décadas, y desde luego no hubiera sido posible sin la explosión…
(Text: Johanna Jaufer, fm4.orf.at, 29/05/2015) Die Neonazipartei “Goldene Morgenröte” hat Griechenlands Bevölkerung jahrelang terrorisiert. Jetzt steht die Parteiführung vor Gericht. Woher kommen “Chrysi Avgi” und was erwarten sich Beobachter vom Prozess? Seit mehr als zwanzig Jahren existiert die “Goldene Morgenröte”, griechisch Chrysi Avgi (Χρυσή Αυγή). Politische Bedeutung erlangte die Gruppe erst im Zuge der europäischen…
Na posebnem sodišču v zaporu Koridalos na obrobju Aten se je po prvem maju začelo sojenje 69 članom in podpornikom Zlate zore. Tožilstvo bo skušalo na sodišču dokazati, da je v 15 mesecih preiskave zbralo dovolj dokazov, na podlagi katerih lahko trdi, da je neonacistična stranka Zlata zora, ki nastopa odprto ksenofobno, antisemitsko, proti priseljencem…
You can watch below the videos of the discussion organised by AnalyzeGreece last Wednesday: “Golden Dawn Trial – An international event: Why does it matter to Greece and beyond”. The discussion took place in English. Speakers: Dimitris Christopoulos: Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights, Golden Dawn Watch observatory. Thanassis Kampagiannis: civil action representative…
Police on the streets of Athens, during a Golden Dawn protest. Steve Jurvetson under a Creative Commons Licence. The country’s neo-Nazi party is to be put on trial this week. Niki Seth-Smith analyses the implications (New Internationalist, 12/05/2015). A historic trial has just resumed in Greece, as the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn faces charges including…
(Author: Yannis Papadopoulos, Kathimerini, 12/05/2015) On the first day of the trial against the far-right Golden Dawn party, Giorgos Dimou did not make an appearance at special court in the Greek capital’s Korydallos Prison. Dimou stands accused of being an accomplice in the September 2013 murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas and of participating in a…
(Chrissi Wilkens, Athen, Journalistin in Griechenland, fm4.orf.at, 12/05/2015) Spitzenpolitikern und Mitgliedern der griechischen Neonazipartei Chrysi Avgi wird der Prozess gemacht. Babuhara, ein Migrant aus Gambia, hält trotzig ein großes Banner unter die brennende Mittagsonne. Er nimmt teil an einer der Demonstrationen in Athener Stadtteil Korydallos. In einem Gerichtssaal im Hochsicherheitsgefängnis dieses Stadtteils findet der Prozess…
(Author: Omaira Gill, Vice.com, 11/05/2015) It’s a quiet afternoon in Nazaar Hussein Shah’s Bollywood DVD store in the heart of Athens’ South Asian immigrant community. Taking a breather, Shah looks relaxed as he recalls times not so long ago when life was harder and more frightening. “Before, when Golden Dawn would come and cause trouble, we…
(Report: Yannis Baboulias, Al Jazeera, 7/05/2015) Thanassis Kabayiannis is confident the end is near for the controversial right-wing political party that has made inglorious headlines since entering the Greek parliament with 18 members of parliament in 2012. Kabayiannis is one of the prosecution lawyers in the trials of the Golden Dawn party that finally starts on Thursday after…
(Report: John Psaropoulos, Al Jazeera, 20/04/2015) The trial of Golden Dawn leader Nikos Mihaloliakos and his MPs elected in 2012, has been almost two years coming. Prosecutors say Mihaloliakos was the head of a covert army that intimidated and killed immigrants and opponents. Al Jazeera’s John Psaropoulos reports from Athens. The trial of 69 members…
(Autori: Dace Komseli, lsm.lv, 7/05/2015) Ceturtdien speciāli izveidotā tiesas sēžu zālē paaugstinātas drošības cietumā Koridallos, Atēnās, notiek tiesas procesa pret Grieķijas galēji labējo politisko partiju „Zelta rītausma” otrā diena. No 83 apsūdzētajiem tiesas priekšā jāstājas 69 partijas deputātiem, viņu vidū arī partijas dibinātājam un vadītājam Nikos Mihaloliakos un ierindas biedriem. Tiesas process sākās 20.aprīlī, taču…