Christos Pappas

Christos Pappas, who was second in charge of the far-right Golden Dawn party, was arrested late on July 1 in Zografos, a suburb of the Greek capital Athens. 

Pappas, who had been sentenced to 13 years in prison in October 2020 along with other senior members of the party for forming a criminal organization, had gone missing after the verdict.

A Greek police spokesperson has brushed aside reports that a convicted fugitive, Christos Pappas, from the far-right Golden Dawn party, may be hiding out in a Serbian monastary.

The political trial of the extreme-right Golden Dawn continued Tuesday, with Christos Pappas, the party's number two, declaring that his "conscience is clear" and dismissing an old photograph of him and his young son performing the Nazi salute, saying they were "having a laugh."

Seven police officers were hospitalized with minor injuries on Tuesday following clashes with a group of anti-fascist demonstrators protesting the presence of far-right Golden Dawn officials at a memorial to the victims of the 1913 Battle of Bizani, in Ioannina, northwestern Greece.

Riot police clashed with a group protesting the presence of far-right Golden Dawn officials at a memorial to the victims of the 1913 Battle of Bizani, in Ioannena, northwestern Greece, on Tuesday.

The ceremony was organized to mark the city's 104th anniversary of liberation from Ottoman rule, in which the Battle of Bizani played an instrumental role.

Three lawmakers of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn were ejected from a parliamentary committee briefing on Feb. 17 after insulting the defence minister and the head of the army, officials said.

Golden Dawn MPs Christos Pappas and Ilias Kasidiaris on Wednesday were expelled from the Greek Parliament after attacking Defence Minister Panos Kammenos during his speech on the refugee issue and the involvement of NATO.

An Orthodox priest in southern Albania, the father of the new leader of the ethnic Greek party “Omonia”, was beaten up on Monday by two men impersonating police officers, media reports state.

Just weeks before the leadership and around 70 members of Golden Dawn are to go on trial, the neo-Nazi party?s second-in-command, Christos Pappas, was released from jail on Sunday as the 18-month limit of pretrial detention expired.

In an interview with private radio Vima FM, Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos said on Wednesday that, due to understaffing problems, the trial of far right Golden Dawn deputies might be delayed.

"This delay may result in the release of the deputies, when the maximum period for holding someone without trial expires," Paraskevopoulos added.