Murder of Pavlos Fyssas

The police will be on standby over the weekend as relatives and supporters of the anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, who was killed three years ago by a member of neofascist Golden Dawn, are to hold three days of rallies and events in his memory.

The sister of slain Greek Pavlos Fyssas returned to the stand at the Golden Dawn trial on Thursday, nearly a year after collapsing during her first testimony.

On Thursday, Irini Fyssa told the court she was not present when Giorgos Roupakias fatally stabbed her brother on September 18, 2013 outside a cafe in Keratsini, a Piraeus suburb.

The trial of Golden Dawn leadership and members resumes Monday in Athens after a summer recess with more testimonies of witnesses to the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas.

Fyssas was stabbed to death to murder by Golden Dawn member Giorgos Roupakias in a suburb of Piraeus in September 2013.

The trial of Golden Dawn MPs and members in connection to the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas will continue on June 3, it has been decided.

The trial has been held up over the last few months due to a prolonged strike by lawyers, who have been protesting changes to their social security.

Magda Fyssa, mother of slain anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, testified during an emotional session at a makeshift court at Korydallos prison. She said that the ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn (GD) party had ordered the assassination of her son on September 18, 2013.

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 on Tuesday with the testimony of Panayiotis Fyssas, the father of the anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas who was stabbed to death two years ago by a member of the neo-Nazi party in Keratsini, west of Athens.

Ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn leader Nikos Mihaloliakos inserted a distinctly darker tone to the ongoing pre-election period in the country on Thursday by saying his party assumes the “political responsibility” for the stabbing death of an anti-fascist rapper  almost two years ago to the day.

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.

A huge swastika was painted in red paint on the monument of rapper Pavlos Fyssas (aka Killah P) at Keratsini on Saturday. Municipality cleaners rushed early in the morning to clean it after it was vandalized at dawn. This is not the first time that the monument has been attacked.