Golden Dawn members and politicians rally outside Greek parliament. Demotix/Michael Debets. All rights reserved.Sixty nine members of Golden Dawn, the Greek neo-Nazi party, are currently on trial – a trial that has been progressing very slowly and has been adjourned three times already – charged with having committed a range of very serious offences.
Some of them were prosecuted as principal offenders in murders, attempted murders, serious assaults, firearm possession offences etc. Others, including the leader and his closest circle, are liable for having set up and/or being members of a structured, long-term organisation, which pursues the commission of a gamut of specified serious crimes.
Golden Dawn members, sympathisers and advocates vociferously protest that they are being persecuted for their ideas rather than for any crimes actually committed. I have argued elsewhere that this is certainly not the case; this is a criminal prosecution and not a political persecution.
