Greece: 7 Members of Right-Wing Political Party Jailed for 10+ Years Because One of Their Supporters Stabbed a Guy in a Street Fight

Earlier: What Democracy? Greek Golden Dawn Party Convicted of Being a Criminal Gang

When I was a kid, the idea of locking up an opposition political party on false charges was considered something oppressive.

But that was before Nazism.

DW:

A Greek court on Wednesday handed a 13-year jail term to the leader of the neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn, Nikos Michaloliakos, for running a criminal organization under the guise of a political party.

Six other former senior members were sentenced between 10 and 13 years on similar charges, and 11 former Golden Dawn lawmakers were sentenced to between five and seven years in prison for being members of a criminal group.

Golden Dawn has been blamed for organizing multiple, violent attacks targeting immigrants and left-wing activists. Most were carried out in Athens.

Closing a violent chapter

The landmark ruling is the culmination of a five-year court casethat involved more than 50 defendants convicted of crimes ranging from illegal weapons possession, murder and assault.

The trial has been described as one of the most important in Greece’s political history.

The judges will now decide if any of the sentences can be suspended pending appeals by the defendants. Those denied appeal will likely be detained later in the week.

None of Golden Dawn’s main members attended the sentencing.

The extremist party’s leaders were arrested in 2013 after the killing of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas by a Golden Dawn supporter sparked nationwide protests. That led to a government crackdown on the party. 

On Wednesday, the court also sentenced Golden Dawn member Yiorgos Roupakias to life in prison for Fyssas’ murder

Several other former party members were sentenced between six and seven years for being complicit in the murder.

Golden Dawn was founded as a neo-Nazi group in the 1980s and rose to prominence during the Euro financial crisis. The party entered the Greek parliament for the first time in 2012 after tapping into citizens’ concerns about migration and austerity measures.

This is what happened: a soccer hooligan who supported the party (as most soccer hooligans will) stabbed an Antifa during a riot. They claimed that this obviously riot-oriented murder was a conspiracy organized at the highest levels of the party.

Just like with the imprisoning of James Fields, everyone knows this is fake. The Jewish media and other Jewish and Jewlike leftists are cheering it because they think right-wingers should be jailed for their beliefs.