Golden Dawn

The jailed head of a crime syndicate, Panayiotis Vlastos, has allegedly told a relative that he knows who murdered two Golden Dawn members in late 2013.

A document tracing alleged attacks carried out by members and supporters of ultra nationalist Golden Dawn since 1996 was submitted to an Athens court on Tuesday.

Signed by the lawyers of an Egyptian fisherman assaulted by Golden Dawn members in Perama in 2012, among others, the memo provides information and witness accounts from 90 lawsuits filed against the party.

Expelled far-right lawmaker Stathis Boukouras, who was ousted from Golden Dawn in March after distancing himself from the party, has filed an appeal to be released from pre-trial custody.

The trial of two Golden Dawn members, accused of attacking anti-fascist activists in Piraeus two years ago, was due to begin on Monday but has been postponed until April next year.

The court postponed the trial after deeming that one of the two suspects had not been summoned properly. The other is already in pretrial custody as part of the main judicial probe into the neo-Nazi party.

All 16 MPs of the ultranationalist party Golden Dawn, as well as two deputies who have quit the party, should stand trial on charges of belonging to an running a criminal organization, prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos said on Thursday in a recommendation to a council of judges.

Members of Golden Dawn received military-style, outdoor training, according to internal documents of the organization published over the weekend by To Vima newspaper.

The debate leading up to Friday’s confidence vote got under way in Parliament on Wednesday, with New Democracy and SYRIZA attacking each other straight from the opening exchanges.

A 40-year-old lawyer has been arrested in Thessaloniki on suspicion of defrauding the Loans and Deposits Fund.

The lawyer is alleged to have doctored court decisions and forged power of attorney documents to collect money his clients had deposited at the fund as part of the trial process.

Authorities said the suspect had collected 9,150 euros illegally since June.

The last of the 67 people arrested during disturbances at a march last week to mark the one-year anniversary of rapper Pavlos Fyssas’s murder were bailed yesterday.

The three suspects were charged with breaches of the peace, possessing explosives and resisting arrest. Under their bail terms they will have to appear at their local police precinct on the first of every month.

Sixty-four people arrested in Keratsini, a suburb of Piraeus, on Thursday, following clashes with police during an anti-racist march marking the one-year anniversary of the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas by self-professed Golden Dawn member Giorgos Roupakias, appeared in a Piraeus court on Friday on charges of disturbing the peace, damaging public property and possessing explosives.