Prosecutor brings treason charges against extreme-right MP

A deputy Supreme Court prosecutor in Athens charged a lawmaker of extreme-right Golden Dawn with preparatory acts to commit treason, after he called for a military coup during a speech in parliament on Friday.

Speaking in a debate on a no-confidence motion brought against the government by New Democracy over a deal achieved with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on its name, Konstantinos Barbarousis accused the government of failing to protect Greece's interests and called on the army to intervene.

"As the country's political leadership is not legislating in the nation's interests but in its own, I call on the country's military leadership to respect its oath and to arrest Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, [Defence Minister] Panos Kammenos and [President] Prokopis Pavlopoulos to avert this treason," he said.

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