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A sitting Member of the European Parliament has told an Athens appeals court that he is a NazI and asked if he was going to be judged for that.

The decision over the parliamentary presence of the far-right Spartiates (Spartans) has been postponed by the Electoral Court until after a verdict is issued in the criminal trial of the party's MPs who are being prosecuted for defrauding the electorate.

Greece's electoral court has decided to postpone its ruling on the far-right Spartiates (Spartans) party until after the completion of the criminal trial involving some of its representatives. 

An appeals court prosecutor has appealed a decision of a Lamia court earlier this month to grant conditional release to Nikos Michaloliakos, who in 2020 was sentenced to 13 years and 6 months' imprisonment after being convicted of leading the Golden Dawn criminal organization.

The European Parliament must release information on the allowances and expenses claimed by MEP and convicted criminal Ioannis Lagos, who was elected to the European Parliament for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group in 2019, EU judges have ruled.

Ilias Kasidiaris, the imprisoned former deputy leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group, submitted a request to the judicial authorities for his early release from jail.

Nikos Michaloliakos, the formerly powerful leader of the now defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, has been conditionally released from prison after a decision by the judicial council of Lamia in central Greece.

The Lamia Court of Appeals Prosecutor intends to appeal the decision of the Lamia Misdemeanor Court, which granted conditional release to Nikos Michaloliakos, convicted of leading the criminal organization of Golden Dawn, sentenced to 13 years and 6 months.

The convicted leader and founder of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party, Nikos Mihaloliakos, has been released from prison on parole, a Greek police source and state television ERT said on Thursday.

The family of rap singer Pavlos Fyssas who was killed by a member of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn in 2013 said the decision of a court council earlier on Thursday to release its former leader is a "great offense" to the victims of the now-defunct group, their families and "Greek society as a whole".