Antisemitism in Greece

Police have launched an investigation into an alleged assault Wednesday by members of Golden Dawn on two women, including a prosecution lawyer in the ongoing trial of MPs and supporters of the neo-Nazi party.

More than 20 members of GD were detained by police on Wednesday in connection with the incident.

A prosecution lawyer in the ongoing trial against Golden Dawn, as well as another woman, were attacked by supporters of the neo-Nazi party on Alexandras Avenue in Athens on Wednesday.

Three teenagers were arrested on Thursday in connection with a brutal attack last Saturday against two Pakistani migrant workers in the industrial zone of Aspropyrgos, west of Athens.

Two of the suspects are aged 17, while the other is 18.

A crew sticking posters advertising a Panhellenic Union of Merchant Seamen (PENEN) event on walls in Piraeus were physically attacked by between 10 and 12 people on motorcycles early Wednesday morning. The posters were promoting an upcoming event organized by PENEN to mark the 1917 October Revolution in Russia.

The criminal trial against the leadership and members of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn continued on Friday at an Athens court with the testimony of a former official of the party who provided judges with an insight into its operation and aims.

Anti-fascist protesters chant slogans outside the American Embassy in central Athens during a rally Thursday marking the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday at a counterdemonstration in response to a white supremacist rally.

In a statement on its website, Greece's neonazi Golden Dawn praised a white supremacist rally in Virginia last week that turned fatal when a far-right protester drove a car into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters.

Four rights groups have submitted a motion to sue with a Supreme Court prosecutor over a spate of recent attacks against migrant workers in the industrial town of Aspropyrgos, west of Athens.

Guards at Greece's Parliament had to eject a lawmaker with far-right Golden Dawn on Monday after he violently lashed out at a colleague.

The proceedings of the Greek Parliament have been halted after a serious incident that took place between the Golden Dawn MP Kasidiaris and the New Democracy MP Dendias a few minutes ago.