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| Greece arrests neo-Nazi party leader |
| 2013-09-29 |
[FRANCE24] Greece on Saturday locked awayYou have the right to remain silent... the leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party and hunted for dozens of members as part of a crackdown launched after the murder of a leftist musician, a police source said. Nikos Michaloliakos, 56, was arrested along with Golden Dawn politician and front man Ilias Kassidiairis and two other party members on charges of belonging to a "criminal organization," the source said on condition of anonymity. Arrest warrants have been issued for at least five other MPs and dozens of members of the party, which has 18 politicians in parliament. The arrests came a day after Golden Dawn threatened to quit parliament, a move that would prompt by-elections in the recession-hit country where the government is struggling to implement painful public sector reforms in return for international bailout funds. |
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