ATHENS: Another member of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn was charged with belonging to a criminal organisation yesterday, meaning all the party’s lawmakers are now under investigation.
Artemis Mattheopoulos — the 16th parliamentarian from the party to be arrested — has been provisionally remanded in custody, a judicial source said.
Eight members of parliament and ex-MPs from the party are currently in prison awaiting trial, including Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos who has been in custody since September last year.
His wife, Eleni Zaroulia, was charged with co-running the movement last Wednesday. Other members of the party have been released on bail, with a trial not expected until 2015.
A crackdown against the party was launched last year after an anti-fascist musician was killed by a Golden Dawn supporter in an Athens suburb.
Magistrates also filed a second wave of charges against members of the party in relation to that investigation. Founded in the 1980s, the openly xenophobic and anti-Semitic Golden Dawn was for years a semi-clandestine group on the fringes of Greek politics.
Six Albanians jailed for murders
SKOPJE: A group of ethnic Albanians was sentenced to life in prison yesterday after being found guilty of the murder of five Macedonian fishermen in a crime the authorities called a “terrorist attack”.
Judge Ivica Stefanovski said the six accused had killed the men in April 2012 in a “vicious manner” with the aim of “inciting fear” and “endangering security” in the Balkan country.
The victims — all ethnic Macedonians — were found dead at a popular fishing spot near the capital Skopje, their bodies covered in gunshot wounds.
Prosecutors had called the murders a “terrorist attack” which they said were aimed at destabilising a country with a history of inter-ethnic violence.
Agencies
