“Lawyers
representing Greece's extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party demanded a
change of venue Friday for security reasons after party leaders and
members on trial were threatened by suspected members of a leftist
group being led to another courtroom.”
“A
separate case against suspected members of the left-wing Nucleii of
Fire group, which is accused of several bombings, is also being heard
at the prison. Nucleii suspects heading to their own courtroom
managed to open the Golden Dawn courtroom door and threatened the
defendants, trying to enter the room and throwing a bottle before
police intervened.”
“First
appearing as a fringe neo-Nazi organization in the mid-1980s, Golden
Dawn morphed from a marginal far-right group into the country's third
most popular party during Greece's five-year financial crisis. It won
6.28 percent of the vote in a general election three months ago,
despite having its state campaign funding axed. But Golden Dawn has
been blamed in a series of violent attacks against immigrants and
left-wing opponents, including the stabbing death of rap singer
Pavlos Fyssas last year.”
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