Greece: In Athens, hundreds of demonstrators march at the opening of the Golden Dawn appeal trial

Hundreds of demonstrators gather outside the courthouse in Athens, calling for harsher prison sentences for the nearly fifty members of the Golden Dawn group tried on appeal, June 15, 2022. © AFP - LOUISA GOULIAMAKI

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In Greece, the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn is back in court.

At the end of 2020, after five years of a river trial targeting 68 defendants, Golden Dawn was described as a " 

 " and most of its senior executives sent to prison.

This Wednesday, June 15, mainly at the call of left-wing organizations, several thousand demonstrators gathered in front of the Athens Court of Appeal on the occasion of the opening of the appeal trial of the former political party .

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With our correspondent in Athens

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On a large yellow banner, it is still his face that floats in front of the Athens Court of Appeal.

The face of the one whose death brought down Golden Dawn.

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shouts a demonstrator of Albanian origin, who says she is demonstrating against racism.

Pavlos Fyssas was a Greek, anti-fascist rapper whose assassination in 2013 by members of Golden Dawn led to the start of legal proceedings and the decline of this neo-Nazi party, which had flourished in Greece in the wake of of a severe economic crisis.

In 2020, Golden Dawn was finally labeled a criminal organization by Greek justice

and its leaders sent to prison.

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explains Aria, a transgender woman met in the procession,

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This young activist wants Greek society to speak with one voice against racism and fascism.

For her part, the mother of Pavlos Fyssas, present at the hearing, said she hoped for only one thing: that the verdict of the appeal trial be the same as at first instance.

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