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An Egyptian national who witnessed an assault on his compatriots in Nikaia, near Piraeus, in 2012, on Friday identified a fifth Golden Dawn member as one of the attackers in the ongoing GD trial into the group's criminal activities.

One of the five GD members implicated in the attack on the Egyptian fishermen is Anastasios Pantazis, the head of the neofascist party's Perama cell.

The trial against members and supporters of Golden Dawn continued on Friday with the testimony of an Egyptian fisherman who was assaulted in June 2012 by GD members.

The victim, Ebarak Abuzeid, told the court, with the help of a translator, that he was still afraid of walking on the streets, four years after the attack.

The trial of Golden Dawn MPs continued on Friday with the harrowing testimony of the mother of slain anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas. Magda Fyssa, the mother, took the stand to speak of the last moments of her son who was fatally stabbed by Giorgos Roupakias, a member of the neo-Nazi party.

The trial of Golden Dawn MPs and members resumed briefly on Monday, and was adjourned again until June 22, in the absence of virtually all politicians implicated in the party?s alleged criminal activities.

The ultranationalist Golden Dawn trial taking place at a makeshift court at Korydallos prison was filled with tension on Friday as unknown assailants threw water on journalists while calling out threatening slogans. A number of people were concerned that there would be a security issue.

At least three members of Greece?s neofascist Golden Dawn party, including leader Nikos Michaloliakos, are set to be released from custody ahead of their trial on charges of forming a criminal organization, Kathimerini understands.

The leadership of Golden Dawn used its political party status as a vehicle to impose the organization?s neo-Nazi positions through force, according to a judicial ruling that led to 72 GD members, including all the party?s MPs, being indicted on criminal charges.

Dozens of members of Greece?s neofascist Golden Dawn including the party?s leader Nikos Michaloliakos (photo) and all GD MPs ? current and former ? are to stand trial, possibly by mid-March, on a string of criminal charges including running a criminal organization, a committee of judges ruled on Wednesday.

A document submitted to an Athens court on Tuesday lists dozens of lawsuits and convictions involving members and supporters of neofascist Golden Dawn going back to 1996, indicating that the party’s alleged criminal activity started much earlier than 2008, as suggested by prosecutor Isidoros Doyiakos, who has been handling an investigation into GD.

The prosecutor handling an investigation into neofascist Golden Dawn on Thursday proposed that all the party’s 16 MPs, as well as two deputies who have quit the party and dozens more GD members stand trial on a string of charges ranging from running a criminal organization to murder and weapons offenses.