Last week, Nikolaos Michaloliakos and six of the party’s former leaders including MEP Ioannis Lagos were convicted of “leading a criminal organisation”.
On Wednesday, the leader of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party was sentenced to 13 years in jail.
Giorgos Roupakias, a self-confessed Golden Dawn member, the accused of the 2013 murder of the anti-fascist campaigner and hip-hop artist, Pavlos Fyssas, will also face a life sentence.
Last week, Nikolaos Michaloliakos and six of the party’s former leaders including MEP Ioannis Lagos were convicted of “leading a criminal organisation”. On Wednesday, all but one were sentenced to 13 years in jail.
For being members of a criminal organization, eleven other former parliament members were jailed for between five and seven years.
68 members of Golden Dawn, the Greek prosecutors successfully argued, had ordered, or at the very least were aware of, Fyssas’ murder and of various other crimes including the beating of Egyptian fishermen. The Golden dawn party had entered the parliament in 2013 as the country was dealing with a crippling financial crisis.
The prosecutors argued that this made he neo-Nazi populist political party an organised crime outfit.
After the court has heard final arguments for probation considerations, the arrests will be carried out.
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