Golden Dawn
Greece
SYRIZA Leads in Latest Polls
The company Metrisi has conducted a poll for the newspaper Parapolitika. The poll shows that the Greek political parties SYRIZA and New Democracy are neck and neck in voting intentions, with SYRIZA preceding by 0.4 percent.
According to the polling...
Greece
Immigrants Say Greek Bus Driver Tossed Them
A bus driver in Thessaloniki who reportedly admitted being a member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has been charged by two immigrant passengers with forcing them off because he didn't like the color of their skin. The web...
Greece
Roma-Golden Dawn Conflict At Kalamata Hospital
Kalamata’s Roma community and members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party almost battled at the Kalamata General Hospital after the extreme right-wingers came into the facility demanding to know whether there were foreign nurses or workers there.
Golden Dawn,...
Greece
Boutaris Defends Mosque Youth Prayers
Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris isn't backing down from giving permission to a group of students from the Muslim School of Komotini, in northern Greece, to visit and pray in Thessaloniki’s New (Yeni) Mosque – for the first time in...
Crime
Nazi-Salute Soccer Player Banned Again
Professional soccer player Giorgos Katidis, who was banned for life from Greece's national team for giving a Nazio-like salute after scoring the winning goal for his team in a Greek league match, has also been given a five-match ban...
Crime
Papandreou Won't Testify On Lagarde List
Former prime minister George Papandreou has said he won't appear before a parliamentary committee investigating a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that was never checked for tax evaders at a time his...
Canada
Greek-Canadians Film Captures Golden Dawn
The Greek-Canadian cinematographers Filippos Balabanos and Peter James have written, directed and produced a 29-minute film called Dichotomus which focuses on the sudden and surprise rise of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in Greece, a country which fought Nazis...
Crime
Venizelos Says Rivals Worked Against Him
PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, testifying during a fiery hearing before a Parliamentary committee about his tenure as finance minister and his handling of a list of 2,065 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that wasn't...
Greece
Anti-Fascists Battle Golden Dawn in Chania
Rallies and protest marches followed the April 2 incidents in Chania, Crete, between Golden Dawn members and leftist, anti-fascist organizations causing inconvenience among citizens and mobilizing police forces.
The incidents resulted in the arrest of six people, four Golden Dawn...
Australia
Gillard Opens Aussie Door to Golden Dawn
The daily newspaper of Melbourne in an extended article titled, Ban sought on far-right Greek party, refers to the possibility of the neo-Nazi Greek political party Golden Dawn opening a local office in Melbourne.
The newspaper relied on data from...