Golden Dawn trial resumes with Fyssas family lawyer's closing address

The long-running trial over the alleged criminal action of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn (GD) resumed on Wednesday after the December holiday break, with one of the lawyers of the family of murdered antifascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas making her closing statement.

Chrysa Papadopoulou sought to rebut the argument of the prosecution last December that Golden Dawn's leadership and other high-ranking officials should be acquitted of charges of running a criminal organization, and that Giorgos Roupakias, the man arrested for the murder of Fyssas, acted alone, saying the victim was a target.

"Roupakias did not act alone, was not arrested alone, nor was he a random visitor of the Golden Dawn offices. He was a member of the five-member council at the Nikea [GD] branch," Papadopoulou told the Criminal Appeals Court in Athens.

"That night he arrived at the scene of the...