Right-wing politics

The trial of neofascist Golden Dawn party continued Wednesday with the testimony of former MP Ilias Kasidiaris. The former GD spokesman, who currently serves as a member of Athens city council, denounced charges of operating a criminal organization, as being politically motivated.

The rise of the racist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) will push back the integration of the Turkish community by at least 15 years, the general director of a bilingual radio station in Germany has said.

Magda Fyssa, the mother of the 34-year-old rapper Pavlos Fyssas who was killed by Golden Dawn member Giorgos Roupakias in 2013, stands by a monument to her son in Keratsini, Wednesday, marking six years since his death. To her right is the father of Shehzad Luqman, a 27-year-old Pakistani laborer who was killed by GD supporters in the same year.

Thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators were on Wednesday expected to gather in the Piraeus suburb of Keratsini to march on the offices of Golden Dawn party to commemorate the death of rapper Pavlos Fyssas, who was murdered by self-professed GD member Giorgos Roupakias six years ago.
Similar rallies were planned in Thessaloniki, Volos, Patra, Trikala and Kalamatas.

A court in Athens on Monday sentenced two former lawmakers of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn to four months in jail for firing a weapon without just cause at the funeral of a former junta general in 2013.

Ilias Panagiotaros and Konstantinos Barbarousis had attended the funeral of Nikos Dertilis, a member of the 1967-74 military dictatorship's top officials, who died in January 2013, aged 92.

Citing a more lenient criminal code passed by the previous government, one of the prosecutors in the ongoing trial against Golden Dawn has recommended the acquittal of two high-ranking officials in the neo-Nazi party in connection with the savage June 2012 attack on a group of Egyptian fishermen.

The long-running trial over the alleged criminal action of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn resumed on Monday, after a summer break.
The trial at the Criminal Appeals Court in Athens continued with the testimony of the five defendants who accused of a savage attack on four Egyptian fishermen in their house at Ikonio, in the Piraeus district of Perama, on June 12, 2012. 

The long-running trial over the alleged criminal action of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn will resume on Monday, after a summer break.
The trial at the Criminal Appeals Court in Athens will continue with the testimony of the five defendants who accused of a savage attack on four Egyptian fishermen in their house at Ikonio, in the Piraeus district of Perama, on June 12, 2012. 

The Metropolitan Amvrosios of Kalavryta, a fiery conservative Greek Orthodox bishop known for criticizing, often in intemperate terms, those who he believed acted in a "non-Christian" or "non-Greek" way, including gays, migrants and politicians, resigned Sunday.

After successive defections by its former MPs, Golden Dawn is showing signs of disintegration. The fatigue and the challenges to the leadership of the neo-Nazi organization had already become evident as the party prepared its ticket ahead of European Parliament elections in May.