Detention of a suspect

The lawyer of Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris, currently in pretrial detention over charges of illegal weapons possession, has quit after judges rejected his appeal for the release of his client.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade Appellate Court extended the detention sentence for former general manager of Galentika pharmaceutical company Nenad Ognjenovic, aged 60, and ex chair of the Galenika Management Board Dejan Backovic, aged 39.

Ilias Kasidiaris, the spokesman for ultranationalist party Golden Dawn who was remanded in pretrial custody last week on charges of supplying weapons to a criminal organization as part of a wider probe into the party’s activities, was also responsible for training members in how to handle arms, the magistrates leading the investigation said.

The spokesman for neofascist Golden Dawn, Ilias Kasidiaris, was remanded in pretrial custody on Thursday after testifying before magistrates leading a criminal probe into the party, paving the way for the trial of GD lawmakers and members in November after a 10-month investigation.

The spokesman for ultranationalist Golden Dawn, Ilias Kasidiaris (photo, right), was remanded in pretrial custody on Thursday by the special magistrates investigating whether the party constitutes a criminal organization.

He was remanded on charges of illegal weapons possession with the intent to supply a criminal organization.

The Sofia Appellate Court refused to alleviate the remand measure of house arrest of Oktay Enimehmedov, the man who attacked the honorary lifetime Chairman of DPS Ahmed Dogan.

On January 19, 2013, Enimehmedov pointed a gun at Ahmed Dogan while he was delivering his resignation speech at a party conference.

A bomb threat interrupted Golden Dawn MP Eleni Zaroulia's testimony before an Athens court on Thursday.

Zaroulia, who is the wife of the neo-Nazi party's detained leader Nikos Michaloliakos, was facing magistrates on charges of joining and directing a criminal organization.

She was expected to deny the charges.

BELGRADE - The criminal pre-trial chamber of the High Court in Belgrade released from custody on Thursday three persons suspected of spreading false information on social networks about the number of persons killed in the floods that hit Serbia last week.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA – Another two-month extension of detention on remand has been ordered for Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Citizens’ Initiative ‘Freedom, Democracy, Justice’ (SDP), Nebojsa Vlajic, his lawyer, said Saturday.

Vlajic told Tanjug that he will appeal the decision.