Nikolaos Salatas

The head of the Greek prime minister's legal department, Vassiliki Thanou, has come under fire from the country's union of judges and prosecutors (EDE), who described her recent intervention in the Novartis bribery case as an "institutional faux pas."

The leadership of Golden Dawn used its political party status as a vehicle to impose the organization?s neo-Nazi positions through force, according to a judicial ruling that led to 72 GD members, including all the party?s MPs, being indicted on criminal charges.