Nikos Michaloliakos founder of Golden Dawn
Trial in Athens: Golden Dawn "criminal organization", the leader sentenced
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October 13, 2020A Greek prosecutor today called for a 13-year prison sentence for the leaders of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, convicted last week for "leading a criminal organization" Prosecutor Adamantia Economou supported this ruling for leader Nikos Michaloliakos, a denier and admirer of National Socialism, and six other members of the neo-Nazi party, including the MEP Ioannis Lagos.
His proposal will be discussed by a panel of three judges who will announce their decision by Thursday.
The prosecutor has called for sentences of five to seven years in prison for eleven other party deputies, including Nikos Michaloliakos' wife.
The Athens Criminal Court on Monday dismissed any mitigating circumstances that could alleviate the penalties imposed on neo-Nazi party leaders.
After five and a half years of hearings, last week justice unanimously qualified the paramilitary party as a "criminal organization", a verdict defined as "historic" by the President of the Republic and by an entire fringe of the Greek political class.
The Court also ruled that Golden Dawn was guilty of various crimes, in particular the murder in 2013 of the anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, that of the Pakistani Sahzat Luckman, also in 2013, as well as the attack on Egyptian fishermen in 2012 and on communist unionists. in 2013. The Golden Dawn trial is considered one of the most important in the political history of Greece