Court finds Golden Dawn leadership guilty of forming criminal organisation
The court had found defendant Giorgos Roupakias guilty of all charges for the murder of Pavlos Fyssas and the other defendants in the case guilty of acting as accomplices.ANA – MPA/PANTELIS SAYTAS
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The Athens Court of Appeals on Wednesday returned a guilty verdict for the leadership of far-right Golden Dawn on charges of forming a criminal organisation.
The leader of Golden Dawn Nikos Michaloliakos and six former Golden Dawn MPs were found guilty of running a criminal organisation, during the reading of the verdict in the Athens Court of Appeals. They included Christos Pappas, Artemis Matthaiopoulos, Ilias Panagiotaros, Ilias Kasidiaris, Yiannis Lagos and Giorgos Germenis.
The other former MPs on trial, as well as the two Golden Dawn cadres Giorgos Patelis and Anastasios Pantazis, were found guilty of joining and participating in a criminal organisation.
The court also delivered a guilty verdict for all defendants accused of the attempted murder and inflicting serious bodily harm in the attack on members of the PAME trade union bloc, as well as a guilty verdict for all charged for the attempted murder in the case of the foreign fishing boat workers.
Earlier, the court had found defendant Giorgos Roupakias guilty of all charges for the murder of Pavlos Fyssas and the other defendants in the case guilty of acting as accomplices.
The reading of the verdict in the trial of the far-right party Golden Dawn began in the Court of Appeals in Athens at 11:20 on Wednesday, when court president Maria Lepenioti started to read out the names of the accused.
Most of the defendants were absent, with only 11 present in the courtroom and none from among Golden Dawn’s leadership. There were stringent security measures in the courtroom, including the imposition of safe distances to avoid spreading Covid-19.
Source: ANA – MPA