Rouvikonas member charged with incitement to commit crime

A leading member of the anarchist group Rouvikonas was charged with incitement to commit a crime on Saturday after he openly threatened to "burn down" private broadcaster Skai.

Giorgos Kalaitzidis, who will appear before a misdemeanors court, wrote on his Facebook page: "We will burn Skai down. Today, tomorrow, in 10 years - I don't know. But we will burn it down. And we will dance around the ashes."

This is not the first time Kalaitzidis' posts have raised eyebrows. A day before the nationwide rallies called on February 4 by various groups to protest any compromise with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) over its name, Kalaitzidis posted a text on his Facebook account which read: "On February 4, blood might be shed. Some people will hold 'mops' and some others knives."

On May 23, he warned New Democracy chief Kyriakos Mitsotakis that his...