ATHENS, Oct 12 — A Greek court today rejected calls for leniency for the leaders of notorious Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, paving the way for sentences of up to 15 years after a five-year trial. The court refused requests to consider mitigating factors when sentencing party founder and...
Protesters are seen among tear gas during clashes outside a court, where the trial of leaders and members of the Golden Dawn far-right party takes place in Athens, Greece, October 7, 2020. — Reuters pic
Sentencing had been expected tomorrow but was held up after one of the defendants — independent Euro MP Ioannis Lagos — asked that the court be recused for ‘bias’. However, government spokesman Stelios Petsas later said “the court will pronounce the sentences in a few hours.” Michaloliakos and six others including Lagos, deputy leader Christos Pappas and former party spokesman Ilias Kassidiaris will receive sentences of up to 15 years, a court source said.
Lagos in January ripped up a Turkish flag in the European parliament, arguing that Turkey was to blame for illegal migration flows into Greece.“We were condemned over our ideas,” he tweeted last week. “When illegal immigrants are the majority in Greece, when hands over everything to Turkey, when millions of Greeks are unemployed on the street, they will remember Golden Dawn.
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