Blood, money, Golden Dawn

Wednesday was the sixth anniversary of the murder of Greek musician and rapper Pavlos Fyssas by Golden Dawn member Giorgos Roupakias in Keratsini, a western suburb of Piraeus.

Its trial as a criminal organization is entering the final phase despite the systematic foot-dragging of its cadres, who did not hesitate to insult the memory of the murder victim even during court proceedings.

The neo-Nazi party itself is also in its final throes. This is attested to by the closure of its offices across the country and in particular the shuttering earlier this week of the party's headquarters on the capital's Mesogeion Avenue. Finally the national flag will be liberated from years of abuse: devotees of Hitler using it to express their pillaged patriotism.

Whichever date we take as the launch of GD's activities - 1980, when it was founded by Nikos Michaloliakos, or 1993,...

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