The use of the late singer-songwriter Manolis Rassoulis’ songs by the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, which clashed with police while trying to prevent immigrants from being housed at a Corinth military base, has upset his daughter, Natalia, so much she doesn’t want them to do it anymore.
One of Rassoulis’ best-known songs, Ah Ellada S’agapo, (Oh Greece, I Love You) is a favorite of the arch right-wingers and they play it, much to Natalia’s unhappiness. She said she heard it being played by Golden Dawn and sent an open Tweet trying to ban them from continuing the practice.
“Me, as the official administrator of this song’s rights, ban EMPHATICALLY Golden Dawn from using the Ah Ellada S’agapo song at their war meetings,” she wrote. She said she didn’t want his music tied to what she said was the party’s extremist political views and anti-immigrant sentiment. “Any use of this specific song from this organization is totally dangerous and ethnically deceitful,” she added.
Supporters of Golden Dawn, which won 18 seats in the Parliament at the June 17 elections, have been accused of beating immigrants in gang attack against lone individuals, and earlier this week battled police who were trying to bring immigrants rounded up in a sweep to Corinth, where part of the military base would be used as a detention center.
While the extremists were trying to hit immigrants, as well as anti-racist protesters opposed to Golden Dawn, a local mayor turned off the water supply to the base for several hours and Rassoulis’ song sounded.
(Source: Proto Thema)
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