[Another translated interview with a Golden Dawn member from ‘Ethnos’ newspaper. This is the complete interview as it came with the printed version of the newspaper on the 22nd of September 2013. It has not yet appeared on the newspaper’s website] Ethnos 22/09/2013 Can you describe how things work within Golden Dawn? There is a … Continue reading
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Revealing interview with a former Golden Dawn member from the local branch of Nikaia
[Read a translated interview from ‘Ethnos’ newspaper with a former Golden Dawn member from the local branch of Nikaia that recently left the Nazi organization. This is the complete interview as it came with the printed version of the newspaper in two parts (on the 20th and 21st of September 2013. We have put links … Continue reading
Goldendawners closed the borders in Kakavia
FOR ONE HOUR Golden Dawn members closed the borders with Albania yesterday afternoon, after participating in an event in Grammos. Led by the party’s MP Christos Pappas and together with MPs Christos Rigas and Konstantinos Barbarousis, Goldendawners from Epirus and Aitoloakarnania closed the borders. According to firmani.gr [local news website], the reason was the recent … Continue reading
Golden Dawn members disrupt civil war commemoration
Hurl water bottles at New Democracy MP New Democracy MP Maria Antoniou says that the civil war commemoration ‘did not belong to Golden Dawn, which wants to turn it into an anniversary of hate’ Civil war hatred was revived on Sunday when Golden Dawn members verbally abused a New Democracy MP who was attending at … Continue reading
Golden Dawn plays Nazi anthem at food handout
Food distributed to the tune of the Horst Wessel Song Greek version of the Nazi German Horst-Wessel-Lied (Horst Wessel Song) played on loudspeakers outside a Golden Dawn office where members handed out bags of food and clothing Golden Dawn played a Nazi anthem during a political rally-cum-charity event on Wednesday that authorities had attempted to … Continue reading
Basketball federation condemns Golden Dawn slur
Michaloliakos’ comments about Antetokounmpo ‘unacceptable and racist’ In a television interview on Tuesday, Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos likened Greek basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo to a ‘chimpanzee’ The Hellenic Basketball Federation (EOK) has strongly condemned remarks by the leader of Golden Dawn who likened recent NBA draft pick Giannis Antetokounmpo to a “chimpanzee”. The EOK … Continue reading
ADL urges Greece to reconsider appointment of minister ‘known to have promoted anti-Semitism’
Greece’s Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis has a history of remarks about Jews and has promoted anti-Semitic book. By Haaretz | Jun.30, 2013 | 10:56 AM The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern on Friday over the appointment of Adonis Georgiadis as Greece’s Health Minister, due to a history of troubling remarks about Jews and his public promotion … Continue reading
The return of the ‘Security Battalions’
[This is an article from March 2012. Read in combination with the previous related report it makes clear that paramilitary groups like the ‘Patriotic Civil Guard’ have been organising themselves openly and unobstructedly for more than a year now] ‘Overly Greek’ Greeks in arms Self-appointed militias recruit and train citizens with the purpose to take … Continue reading
Bloody nasty people
British journalist Daniel Trilling explains the Golden Dawn conundrum in the context of the European far right Daniel Trilling, journalist and author of Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain’s Far Right, tells Eleftherotypia’s Epsilon magazine how Golden Dawn differs from any other far-right party in Europe After many years of reporting on issues related … Continue reading
Jewish groups condemn Greek party’s racism bill
By SAM SOKOL 06/06/2013 ADL blast Greece’s Golden Dawn party after it submits draft bill to “combat racism against Greeks” by illegal immigrants. Jewish groups condemned Greece’s Golden Dawn party on Wednesday, after it submitted a draft bill in parliament “to combat racism against Greeks” by illegal immigrants. Golden Dawn, which had been described as … Continue reading