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Athens mayor seeks 'exemplary' penalty for neo-Nazi MP

Agence France-PresseMay 8, 2013 18:10
Athens Mayor George Kaminis on Wednesday said authorities should make an example of a neo-Nazi lawmaker who tried to assault him and allegedly punched a 12-year-old girl instead. Kaminis' office said he was seeking an "exemplary" punishment for George Germenis, a former black metal rocker who was elected to parliament last June with neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. On May 2, Germenis stormed into a municipal building where Kaminis was handing out Easter gifts to protest against the mayor's ban on a Golden Dawn food handout earlier in the day.

Greek far-right MP cleared of student attack

March 7, 2013 12:45
ATHENS, March 7 (Reuters) - The spokesman for Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party was cleared on Thursday of involvement in an attack on a student in 2007, triggering chants and cheers from supporters outside the court room. Elias Kasidiaris - whose movement entered parliament for the first time in June riding a wave of public anger over austerity and immigration - taunted journalists after the ruling, saying they had reported false accusations against him.

Greek police probe neo-Nazi hate speech in Channel 4 video

March 6, 2013 11:01
Police in Greece said on Wednesday they had opened an investigation after a report on Britain's Channel 4 television showed a Greek neo-Nazi threatening to turn immigrants into soap. The statements were made by Alexandros Plomaritis, a 44-year-old who ran for parliament for the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn in last year's election. "We are ready to open the ovens. We will turn them into soap...to wash cars and pavements. We will make lamps from their skin," Plomaritis said of undocumented migrants, whom he also termed "miasma" and "subhuman".

UPDATE 1-Anti-racism protesters rally in Athens after stabbing

January 19, 2013 15:45
(Updates number of protesters, adds quote) By Yannis Behrakis and Renee Maltezou ATHENS, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators on Saturday paraded the coffin in central Athens of a Pakistani immigrant who was stabbed to death earlier this week, praying and opening the casket to show his face in protest at racist attacks in the country.

Anti-racism protesters rally in Athens after Pakistani stabbed

January 19, 2013 12:15
By Yannis Behrakis and Renee Maltezou ATHENS, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators on Saturday paraded the coffin in central Athens of a Pakistani immigrant who was stabbed to death earlier this week, praying and opening the casket to show his face in protest at racist attacks in the country. About 3,000 immigrants and human rights activists later gathered in the city's central Omonia square to demonstrate against racism, holding banners reading "Neo-Nazis out" and "Punishment for the fascist murderers of Shehzad Luqman".
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