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Golden Dawn Says Terrorists Conducted Killings in Greece: UPDATE

Golden_Dawn_Dead1Officials of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party said the killings of two of its members gunned down outside an Athens neighborhood headquarters on Nov. 1 was the work of terrorists and that it was left without police protection in the wake of a government crackdown after an anti-fascist hip-hop artist was murdered last month by a man police said is connected to the extremists.
The two fatalities, both in their 20s, were shot at close range from a motorcycle carrying two men, Greek Golden Dawn lawmaker Georgios Germenis told The Associated Press.
“A man got off a motorcycle wearing a helmet and shot them,” he said, adding that the attack was captured on a security camera at the party office in the Athens’ Neo Iraklio suburb.
Police said no arrests were made but that the counter-terrorism squad is taking part in the investigation. Greek Golden Dawn lawmaker Ilias Kasidiaris, one of six party MP’s arrested last month on charges of running a criminal gang, blamed the shooting on “terrorists” and said on private Star TV that it appeared to be a well-planned attack.
Greek Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias expressed “distress” at the fatal shooting of the two young men. “We will not allow the country to become a ground for the settling of accounts, for whatever reason,” he said. Germenis said the violence occurred right after police stopped protecting the office where the attack occurred.
“The Greek government stripped us naked so that we can be killed,” he told the AP. “We had received threats at that office, and we informed the local police station. They had plainclothes police outside the office every day until today.”
Friday’s attack was condemned by all the parliamentary parties, with government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou pledging that the killers would be caught.
“Taking away a human life is the worst kind of crime,” said SYRIZA. “Today’s murders create a climate of instability and targets democracy. They have to be totally condemned and to be morally, ideologically and politically isolated.”
He did not elaborate on which group he thought may have targeted Golden Dawn, which is still the country’s third most-popular party although its support plummeted after the killing of Pavlos Fyssas in an Athens neighborhood, an act which led to the arrest of the party’s hierarchy. Its leader, Nikos Michaloliakos, is being detained pending trial.

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