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ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANTINAZI INITIATIVE
Under SYRIZA government she was promoted to President of the Court of Appeals and later on to a member of the Supreme Court. Now she is appointed vice-president of the Supreme Court by the New Democracy government.
OUST THE ANTISEMITE MARIANTHI PAGOUTELI FROM THE SUPREME COURT!
All those having played a leading role in the anti-Semitic acquitting decision over the Nazi K. Plevris became members of the Supreme Court under PASOK, SYRIZA-ANEL and ND governments.
The Antinazi Initiative denounces the promotion of the overt anti-Semite Marianthi Pagouteli, till yesterday a member of the Supreme Court, to the post of Vice-President of the Supreme Court by the Council of Ministers of the ND government. This is the highest position an overt anti-Semite has ever reached in the judiciary. The all too rotten in the case of anti-Semitism in our country is that M. Pagouteli’s promotions began under SYRIZA government in 2017, when she was promoted by the Judicial Council to President of the Court of Appeals, while in 2019 she was promoted anew to a member of the Supreme Court.
EGAM denounces the government and SYRIZA for the issue of nazi Zaroulia
We have
received and are now publishing the press release of the EGAM which denounces
Samaras, the three governmental parties, and Syriza, for having so far
violated their pledge to exclude the nazi Zaroulia, representative of
“Chrysi Avgi” (“Golden Dawn”), from the Council of Europe. We remind that
EGAM had greeted (after the December 15 mobilization) Samaras’ pledge
that he would expulse Zaroulia from the Greek delegation at the Council
of Europe. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe convenes
on Monday, January 21.
We don’t know what will be the results of the above pressure by EGAM till
Monday, but it is for sure that these are parties of fraud and duplicity.
This is their constant tactic against Europe. As they fail to respect
their economic pledges, and violate them, by insidiously sabotaging every
sort of economic development, they also make such pledges in the matter
of democracy: they reassure the European democrats that they are anti-nazi,
while at the same time they help the nazis strengthen their positions
in both Greece and Europe. In Greece there is not just a nazi political
party. There is a pro-nazi political regime. It is the same regime that
has been backing and boosting “Ch. A” for the last 30 years. Those villains,
double-face liars could be put in a really difficult position only by
an all-European democratic mobilization against them.
<<Press release
Athens, Thursday, January 17th,
The European Grassroots Antiracist Movement EGAM is extremely worried
about the respect of the pledges by Greek PM Samaras regarding the exclusion
of the neo-Nazis from the Council of Europe...
CYNICISM AND HYPOCRISY OF THE POLITICAL
SYSTEM TOWARDS THE NAZIS:
THE REPLY OF THE CHAIRWOMAN OF THE GREEK DELEGATION IN THE COUNCIL OF
EUROPE TO THE “ANTINAZI INITIATIVE” ABOUT EL. ZAROULIA
The deliberate and hypocritical nature of Evangelos Venizelos’ sudden “initiative” in general against “Chrysi Avgi” (“Golden Dawn”) and concretely for the expulsion of Eleni Zaroulia from the Council of Europe, is also proved by the stance of the PASOK party in the Greek parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe, when the Antinazi Initiative had asked for the expulsion of nazi El. Zaroulia from it, in an open letter to the whole delegation...
LEAFLET DISTRIBUTED AT EGAM PROTEST MARCH OF DEC 15
The nazis being legal and in the seats of the parliament means the democrats
are outlawed
The Antinazi Initiative supports and takes part in the today’s protest
organized by the EGAM (European Grassroots Anti-racist Movement) in
Greece. At a time when the governments and the political parties in
Greece haven’t organized a single...
Antinazi Initiative participates in Dec 15 protest march organized by EGAM
Antinazi Initiative that has been fighting for the last 15 years in order to have the nazi gang of “Golden Dawn” outlawed, supports and will participate to the protest march organized by the front of European antiracist civil society organizations, ÅGAM, on Saturday December 15, against racism, anti-Semitism and neo-nazism.
THE ANTINAZI INITIATIVE CALLS UPON THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE TO REMOVE ELENI ZAROULIA OF THE NAZI “CHRYSI AVGI” (“GOLDEN DAWN”) FROM THE COMMITTEE ON EQUALITY AND NON-DISCRIMINATION
The Antinazi Initiative with its open letter to the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Council of Europe, calls upon the Committee to remove the MP of nazi “Chrysi Avgi” (“Golden Dawn”) E. Zaroulia from its membership. The letter is notified to the competent bodies and to the political groups of the Council of Europe including the Greek delegation.
Athens, October 31, 2012Open Letter to the Chairperson and the members of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Council of Europe
Subject: Call for the expulsion of Eleni Zaroulia, parliamentary member with the nazi “Chrysi Avgi” (“Golden Dawn”), from Committee membership
We appeal
to you as members of the Antinazi Initiative, a voluntary citizens’
organization, which has been active against nazism, racism, and anti-Semitism
in Greece since 1997. With the present letter we protest against the participation
of Eleni Zaroulia – member of the Greek delegation at the Council
of Europe and MP with the nazi “Chrysi Avgi” (1) – to
the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination and to the Sub-Committee
on Gender Equality, and invite you to directly proceed to her expulsion
from these committees. We believe that the participation of nazis to a
Committee concerned with combating racism should not be tolerated, because
this actually annuls the Committee’s objectives.
If Eleni Zaroulia was allowed to participate, the victims of
racism that may resort to an anti-racist committee of Europe for protection
would have to address the representative of a gang like “Chrysi
Avgi” that uses racist violence in our country.
Joint Leaflet of Antinazi Initiative and OAKKE (Org. For the Reconstruction of the CPG)
(Athens, June 13, 2012)
BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
DEMOCRATS GET ORGANIZED AND RESIST THE NAZI GANG OF “GOLDEN DAWN” (CHRYSI AVGI) WHICH IS PROTECTED BY THE REGIME
The Greek political system and a great part of society has accepted as normal the participation of a nazi criminal gang in the Parliament, which has happened for the first time since World War II. Some people that are not hardened nazis but neither politically and historically informed go so far as to vote for them. Their drawback is that they view things superficially. They...
NO TO THE ENTRY OF THE “CHRYSI AVGI” (GOLDEN DAWN) GANG INTO PARLIAMENT!
OUTLAW THE HITLERIANS NOW
Democrats in Greece and the whole Europe,
It is an unprecedented scandal for whole Europe and the world, inconceivable after the world war II, that a nazi party, namely “Chrysi Avgi” (Golden Dawn), enters the Greek parliament in the 2012 elections. It isn’t because the anti-Hitler and anti-nazi hatred of our people has faded away that we are today facing this hideous possibility. We are facing it because the political regime has for many years been unanimously PROTECTING AND BOOSTING THAT MURDEROUS GANG into the political life of the country, by hiding its hilterian character from the people and even worse, by relativizing the meaning and seriousness of that character. In particular, all parliamentary parties, that today seem to be “astonished” at the rise of “Chr. Avgi”, have been doing the following for years now:
They have never denounced “Chrysi Avgi” as a nazi murderous gang but let it pass for a legal and ordinary political party.
They allowed those overt and audacious nazis to participate in all electoral battles, and at that they’ ve been inviting them to sessions jointly with all parliamentary and non-parliamentary parties, in order to commonly define the television times available for each one.
The state and the whole political parliamentary spectrum has let them unaccountable for their violence against democratic citizens and especially against migrants for years.
They allow them dissolve events and destroy the offices of national minorities parties, and at that under the cover of the police.
They “pushed” them into getting elected to the Municipal council of Athens and watched its leader addressing the nazi salute inside the town hall with full “understanding”.
They let them formally participate to the schools parades on the October 28 national day.
The most important is that the whole political regime has imposed them as “protectors” of the population in a neighborhood of the center of Athens, at Agios Panteleimonas square. In that area, they’ ve been ceded the right to stab the migrants at will and to forbid the existence and propaganda of the other parties, that is the right to impose their own nazi, racist dictatorship from now on.
This so far partial and de facto enforcement of the nazi law in the country has also been to a degree imposed de jure. The Greek highest court, the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos), decided in 2010, having all parliamentary parties by its side, that the praise of nazism was legal and that the hitlerian calling for extermination of the Jews was also legal and at that justified, since he did it invoking the allegation that the Jews “conspire” so as to conquer the world hegemony. This was the rationale by which the arch-nazi K. Plevris was acquitted in 2010 from the charges concerning his book, a praise to Hitler and the SS, entitled “Jews the whole truth”.
FOOTNOTES
- “Antepithesi” (Counter-attack): the magazine of the “Youth” of Chr. Avgi.
- Ch.A. magazine:
“Ideological” magazine of Chr. Avgi.
STATEMENT OF THE ANTINAZI INITIATIVE
SHAME!
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC KAROLOS PAPOULIAS REHABILITATES THE
NAZIS MORALLY AND POLITICALLY!
(May 16, 2012)
The
political regime “whitewashes” “Golden Dawn” (“Chrysi Avgi”).
The inconceivable for a European country after World War 2 is now
a fact: On 5/13/2012 the President of the Republic, K. Papoulias,
received the head of the nazis N. Michaloliakos at the presidential
mansion, listened to him carefully while he was presenting the “electoral”
programme of “Chrysi Avgi”, he...
STATEMENT BY THE ANTINAZI INITIATIVE (14/11/2011)
THE CLIMB OF THE FASCIST LA.O.S. PARTY TO THE GOVERNMENT CONSTITUTES A FASCIST DEVIATION
THE NEW VICE MINISTER OF MARITIME AFFAIRS AND HIS “FAVORITE” BOOK
The Antinazi Initiative condemns the agreement of the two big parties to offer the fascist LAOS party 4 ministries and sub-ministries of the new government as a fascist deviation. The ANI also condemns the general acceptance LAOS has won so far, being presented as a normal parliamentary party by the other parliamentary parties, including the so called leftish ones, as part of this deviation.
Among the 4 governmental cadres...
22 years from the heroic uprising of the Chinese people in Tien An Men
Circulate below message
We have received
and we post here the appeal of the human rights activist Jens Galschiot
in co-operation with the Democracy Movement in Hong Kong against the
ban of Chinese State of any reference to Tien An Men massacre. We
stand in solidarity with the Chinese democrats who fight against the
brutal fascist regime of their country and we honour the 22nd anniversary
of the heroic democratic uprising of Tien An Men square. We call upon
democrats to cancel the attempt of the Chinese regime to impose a
wall of silence over the Tien An Men uprising.
30 May 2011 – can be downloaded from: www.aidoh.dk/GB-History2011
Appeal to the press, artists, working places, libraries, universities,
and other institutions of education
Give the Chinese students their history back!
THE THREE MEMBERS OF ANTINAZI INITIATIVE WERE ACQUITTED. THIS WAS A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR THE FASCISTS.
STILL THEY WERE MUZZLED DURING THE TRIAL
The trial of the three Antinazi Initiative members was held on December 6, 2010 at the Second Three-member Athens Appeals Court for Misdemeanors. They were accused for “dissemination of false news”. The indictment characterized as “false news” the denouncements of ANI concerning the anti-Semitic and pro-nazi positions of specific judges during the trial process against K. Plevris, where they ...
NO TO THE FASCISTIZATION OF JUSTICE AND OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY
THEY ACQUIT NAZISM, THEY PUT DEMOCRATS ON TRIAL!
On December 6 at the Athens Court
of Appeal, following two postponements, the trial of three members of
the Antinazi Initiative (ANI) is being held. They were witnesses for
the prosecution at the past trial against K. Plevris for his book “Jews,
the whole truth”. This book calls for completion of the genocide of
the Jews and for discrimination and violence against immigrants and
Greek democrats.
The public prosecutor’s office of Athens has now brought charges against
them for “dissemination of false news”. The indictment characterizes
as “false news” the denouncements of ANI for the anti-Semitic and pro-nazi
positions that specific judges and prosecutors expressed during the
three-year trial proceedings. The overt nazi K. Plevris was appointed
by the prosecution to be its sole witness in order to defend the
…credibility of justice!
The denouncements of ANI were confirmed shortly afterwards when the
Appeal Court of Athens finally acquitted the nazi in 2009
over the whole of his nazi genocidal propaganda with the monstrous reasoning
that “the defendant does not turn against the Jews, solely on the
grounds of their racial and national origin but mainly on
the grounds of their objectives for world domination, the methods that
they use for the realisation of these and their conspiratorial action”
(!!!)
In the process, this reasoning was validated by the Supreme
Court with a judgement that will stay forever in the judicial records
worldwide as the first official post-war justification of genocidal
anti-Semitism that is the hard core of nazism. And this, in the continent
that mostly lived the nightmare.
During this trial that lasted three years, the Antinazi Initiative has
not ceased to denounce the attitude of all without exception
the parliamentary parties that refuse to condemn the phenomenon of anti-Semitism
in the judicial system, and more generally. This attitude of
the parties explains the muffling of any news for the trial from television
channels, that is from the public opinion, thus allowing the acquittal
of the nazi and of nazism from the Supreme Court. These same parties
protect for years AND the Nazis of the “Golden Dawn” keeping them in
legal status even holding meetings with them
in order to allocate the television time of pre-election campaign at
each electoral contest. It is these parties that,
for the first time after the Second World War, allowed to
the overt nazis not only to place themselves in the heart
of the capital of a European country, as is the centre of Athens, and
to impose their brutal law there, but also to enter the mainstream political
scene gathering the 5% of the votes at recent local elections.
Let there be no doubt: Behind the democratic front view of our country
the same people who have undermined its productive capacity and who
have discredit it morally, prepare now quietly the fascist chains for
their collective enemy which is no other than the democratic people
of the country.
It is now more than ever necessary that all democrats join the
fight to hinder the process of the facsistization of the country and
if the political life in general. The Antinazi Initiative call all the
democratic citizens, whichever views they might have at other political
and ideological issues, to demand the acquittal of Anna Stai, Irene
Koutelou and Lampis Katsiapis.
LET US ALL BE AT THE ATHENS COURT OF APPEAL IN DECEMBER 6
(Second Three-Member
Appeal Court of Misdemeanors, 09.00 am
-Loukareos & Aleksandras Str, Second Floor)
Justice
through a looking glass (Oct 14, 2010) By Naomi Firsht
Article published at the website of European Jewish Congress
http://www.eurojewcong.org/ejc/news.php?id_article=5828
Nazism acquitted, democrats put on trial!
The trial is on the 22nd of September 2010 at 9.00 am, at the Second Three Member Appeals Court of Athens (Loukareos & Alexandras, 2nd floor).
LET'S ALL BE THERE!
The Antinazi Initiative calls on democrats to stand by its side and demand the acquittal of its three members in order that we hinder the gradual fascistization of the country.
Update
on the campaign of Antinazi Initiative
(August 24, 2010)
The
campaign of Antinazi Initiative has received very warm response
so far with messages from many democrats in Greece and abroad
who have sent letters to the Prime Minister and to the President
of the European Parliament. We have received messages of support
from organizations in Greece (Antinationalist Movement) and
abroad (Never Again, Regional Centre for Minorities). The call
for participation to the campaign has spread widely through
posts and calls for support at websites, blogs, and through
the pan-European network "i-care". We publish at the
side some links to websites and blogs that have posted the call
for participation to the campaign.
Antinazi Initiative has sent hundreds of messages and has addressed
among others to all the political groups of the European Parliament,
to European institutional bodies and almost all Jewish communities
in Europe.
We thank all those who have so far responded to our call, for
their support as well as for their ideas and suggestions that
they sent us in order to make the campaign as effective as possible.
We
urge all democrats in Greece and Europe to denounce the legalization
of nazism in our country and to stand by the side of the prosecuted
members of ANI.
Send the text of the denouncement and declaration of support
and spread the word to as many people as you can!
CAMPAIGN OF ANTINAZI INITIATIVE
(Athens July 13, 2010)
Antinazi Initiative sends the following letter to the European institutional bodies, to antifascist organizations, to Greek and European democrats, and condemns the recent decision of the Greek Supreme Court that acquitted Nazism and asks for support to its 3 prosecuted members who go on trial on September 22, 2010
NAZISM
ACQUITTED DEMOCRATS PUT ON TRIAL!
THE FASCIST PROSECUTION OF ANTINAZI INITIATIVE WILL NOT PASS!
THEY HAVE CALLED NAZI K. PLEVRIS AS WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION TO ...DEFEND
THE CREDIBILITY OF JUSTICE!
The public prosecutor's office of the Athens Court of Appeal pressed charges (following complaint of nazi K. PLevris) against three members of Antinazi Initiative (Anna Stai, Irene Koutelou, Lampis Katsiapis) for "dissemination of false news that may provoke unrest to citizens".
The three who...
Press Release of January 26, 2010
From desecrations to burning
THE NAZIS BECOME BLATANT WITH THE TOLERANCE OF THE POLITICAL REGIME
THE BURNING OF THE SYNAGOGUE AT CHANIA MUST SOUND ALARM!
The nazis become blatant.
Within a 20 days period two fire attacks were perpetrated in the synagogue of Chania. The first attack took place on January 5 and the perpetrators also threw a bar of soap (!) against the external wall of the Synagogue. Grace to the immediate intervention of two immigrants, the Firing Squad was quickly been informed and the arsonists missed their target.
But after the first attack, the new minister of “Citizen’s Protection”, M. Chrysohoides, apparently “forgot to protect” the Greek Jewish citizens. The director of the Synagogue, Mr. Stavroulakis, denounces that although the necessity of guard had been mentioned no such move was made by the police. At the dawn of Saturday, January 16, at 4:00 a.m., a second bigger arson took place, which caused very serious damage to the Synagogue by burning a large part of its archive and of the rare books that were preserved in its library...
Press Release of September 7, 2009
NO SEAT IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE NAZI – PRO-JUNTA DIMITRIS ZAFIROPOULOS VIA LA.O.S.
At 5/9 Dimitris Zafiropoulos, for many years until quite recently the second-in-command of the nazi “Chrysi Avgi” organization, announced in the pro-junta “Eleftheros Kosmos” newspaper, of which he is the editor, his agreement with Yorgos Karatzaferis about his participation in the ballot of LA.O.S. party (People’s Orthodox Rally) as a candidate for parliament in the Achaea prefecture...
PRESSRELEASE
AFTER THE ACQUITTAL OF THE NAZI K. PLEVRIS:
NOW A VERY «SPECIAL» APPEAL BY THE SUPREME COURT AS A MANOEUVRE
TO AVOID INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION OF THE GREEK STATE
On May 22, 2009, the engrossed decision of the 1st Five-Member Court of Appeal was issued, stating the grounds of acquittal of the Nazi K. Plevris for his criminal libel “Jews: the whole truth”. Excerpts from the grounds of acquittal, which are more provocative than the verdict itself, were found on the Web (e-lawyer) by early June. These grounds blatantly misinterprete the content of the libel by adopting the nazi’s defending claim that his call for the extermination of the Jews was really directed at the Jewish Zionists, though the whole libel, from start to finish, is in fact bluntly and undoubtedly aimed at all the Jews throughout the ages. In addiction the grounds of acquittal accept that K. Plevris presented himself in the “book” as a “Greek nationalist”, while he himself declares in it (p. 600): “I am a Nazi, a fascist, a racist, and an anti-Semite” and at that he constantly praises openly the Third Reich and the “sublime national-socialists”, as he refers to them. However the court’s decision says:
In the first place, there should be pointed out that, in accordance
with the inalienable right of each person to self-determination, the accused
declares to be a “Greek nationalist”, because he believes
in Greek nationalism and doesn’t express the ideas of foreign nationalisms
(as nazism is the manifestation of German nationalism and fascism the
manifestation of Italian nationalism), and it is under the prism of his
ideological position that the reader of the disputed book should view
all things contained in it, and particularly those dealing with the Holocaust
of the Jews” (!)
But the above mentioned do no more than reveal the efforts of the specific
court to clear the accused of the charges, by blatantly distorting and
virtually trampling upon the existing testimonial matterial.
What is shocking, however, is that...
BRIEFING OF THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST PLEVRI'S ACQUITTAL 2009
CAMPAIGN
OF ANTINAZI INITIATIVE AGAINST THE ACQUITTAL OF THE NAZI K. PLEVRIS.
THE SCANDALOUS DECISION MUST BE OVERTURNED!
Democrats
in Greece and in Europe,
On March 27, 2009 the Appeals Court of Athens acquitted the nazi - admirer
of the Third Reich, Konstantinos Plevris, who was brought to trial for
incitement to racist violence against the Jews, for his book «The Jews,
the Whole Truth».
The Antinazi Initiative considers this decision unprecedented,
provocative êáé dangerous not only for Greece but for the whole
of Europe and calls to a pan-European campaign for its reversal.
SEND TO THE GREEK PRIME MINISTER K. KARAMANLIS THE PROTEST LETTER
- Instructions for sending this letter
- INFORMATIVE TEXT OF ANTINAZI INITIATIVE DESCRIBING THE JUDICIAL AND POLITICAL CLIMATE THAT LED TO THE ACQUITTAL OF THE NAZI
You can ask
from the four parliamentary parties of Greece to take a stand for the
acquittal decision, sending e-mail to the following addresses:
New Democracy (ND): ndpress@nd.gr
Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK): pasok@pasok.gr
Communist Party of Greece (KKE): mailbox@kke.gr
Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA): tsipras@syn.gr,
alavanos@syn.gr
THE INDICTMENT & THE PROVISIONS OF THE ANTIRACIST LAW 927/79
UNPRECEDENTED PROVOCATION!
THE APPEALS COURT OF ATHENS ACQUITTED THE DISSEMINATOR OF THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS, THE NAZI KOSTAS PLEVRIS!
Today
March 27, 2009 after a procedure of postponements and continuous
cessations that lasted approximately one year, the First Five
Member Appeals Court of Athens acquitted the nazi K. Plevris!
(*)
This is a horrifying decision that blatantly infringes the antiracist
law 927/79 and the international conventions ratified by Greece,
and above all, it consists a direct shielding and encouragement
of the anti-Semitic hate and violence propaganda that strengthens
in our country in the last period.
For
extracts of the book “Jews the whole Truth” included in the
indictment - such as :
- “That’s what the Jews deserve. For it’s the only way they
understand: firing squad within 24 hours...”
- “Wake up, the treacherous Jews are digging a pit for the Nations.
Wake up and throw them in, for they deserve it...”
- “The civilized world is to blame that tolerates those international
pests called Judeans... the time of retaliation has come...”
- “The Jew (in religion) and the human being are contradicting
terms, that is the one excludes the other”
- “The criminal behavior of the Jews explains the Nazis’ deeds
against them, and more than that, it justifies them”.
- «The history of the humankind will hold Adolf Hitler responsible
for the following: He did not rid Europe from the Jews while
he could» etc,
it was judged that they do not consist invitation to violence and hate provocation against the Greek Jews.
Also for phrases such as:
-
“We despise the Jews for their morality, for their religion,
for their deeds, which all prove that they are sub-humans”.
- (Underneath Auschwitz photo): “They rightly preserve the camp
(Auschwitz) at a good condition, because nobody knows what might
happen in the future”
- “I cannot bear to see the murderers, bandits, rapists, oppressors,
pests, corruptors, sappers of the ruffian Jewry, slandering
the superior National-Socialists...”
- «The ÆÕKLON B was nothing more than a poisonous gas that was
used to clear the concentration camps from insects……all the
rest are fairytales of propaganda»
- «The Jewish corpse in the case of Auschwitz was proved absolutely
false from the beginning»
- «Get rid of the Jewish propaganda, that deceives you with
concentration camps, gas chambers, «ovens» and other fairytales
of the pseudo-holocaust...» ,
it was judged that they do not insult the Greek Jews!
In other words, it was judged that no penalty should be imposed on the glorifier of the Third Reich, Hitler, Gobbles, Himmler, of the “superior national socialists”, of the “heroic” SS who claims that «it will not be long until the dawn of the day that the flags of nazism will rise again», and who has written 1,400 pages trying to convince his readers that the “sub-humans Jews” must be exterminated and ousted from all European Countries.
That is, the court acquitted a nazi who produced only writings
that consist nothing less than the definition of provocation
to racist violence and hate.
This decision is not an isolated fault of a specific court consisted
of specific judges, but comes as a capstone of a series of anti-Semitic
positions expressed by judges who participated in this judicial
procedure from its beginning. The most worrying aspect of this
case is that this decision was taken within a certain political
environment where parliamentary cadres of the party LAOS (“Popular
Orthodox Rally”) defended the nazi in court and out of it. At
the same time all the other parliamentary parties headed by
the anti-Semitic «left», kept a stand of scandalous, guilty,
and lengthy silence, blatantly favoring the defendant and LAOS.
Most characteristic is the silence about the provocative stand
of the LAOS MP, Thanassis Plevris, counsel of the defense for
the nazi in court, who went so far as to state that anyone has
the «democratic right» to call for the extermination
of any people even for the re-opening of Auschwitz!
Antinazi Initiative will not stop here: This judgment that consists negative landmark in the democratic course of our country, shame for Greece and for the Greek justice will become known to the Greek people, to Europe and to all democratic countries.
We call the democrats to react to the process of fascistization of our country before it is too late.
DEMOCRACY!
THE GREEK JEWS WILL NOT STAY ALONE!
Athens 27-3-09
* The judgment has as follows: Regarding Article 2 of Law 927/79
punishing dissemination of insulting ideas against a group of
people, the nazi was acquitted unanimously (5-0)
Regarding Article 1 of the law punishing provocation to actions
that may provoke racist hate and violence he was acquitted with
4 votes in favor and 1 vote against.
THE TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF NAZI K. PLEVRIS IS BEING MUFFLED – THE IMPLICATION OF THE POLITICAL PARTY LA.O.S IS COVERED UP
In the late 2007, after a couple of interruptions and postponements of a trial with international interest, the overt racist and nazi K. Plevris was given a suspended 14 months sentence for his book “Jews, the whole truth”.
This book is a patchwork of nazi propaganda stereotypes, phenomenal in post-war Europe. In his book the nazi writer calls for the extermination of the Jews and passionately praises Hitler, the SS, and the Third Reich, by saying that “its banners will wave again”. At that, he critisizes the nazis for not having fulfilled the task of extermination of the Jews, “although they were in a position to do so”!!! His conviction is founded on the 927/79 law which punishes whomever incites violence against citizens for their race, nation, or religion.
This self-evident condemnation may have given the impression that we live in a rudimentarily democratic country. However, here happen the following alarming incidents:
The
court decided to expel counsels of the plaintiffs from the trial,
and allowed the nazi and his many defense counsels to attack the
witnesses for the prosecution. Whenever the prosecutor and the
judges took a stand on the essence of the issue, they spoke mostly
in favor of the nazi. Especially one of them, the Public Prosecutor
Lazarakos, supported and praised K. Plevris, called his nazi monstrosity
“scientific writing”, and attacked the witnesses for the prosecution.
Public opinion has never been informed about the existence of
that extremely important trial and that conviction because no
TV channel in Greece mentioned them, not even as news. And they
not only covered up the nazi writer that way but also continued
to invite him to speak in their broadcasts and this time more
frequently than before!
This scandalous cover-up and promotion of the nazi from the TV
channels would be impossible if even one of the parliamentary
parties had uttered a word about this trial during the time given
to them in the news broadcasts. On the contrary, they have been
whispering to their members and sympathizers that the book praising
the nazis is just “some marginal opinions of a marginal guy” and
that a conviction against him would be against freedom of expression,
that is they practically acted in favor of the nazi’s acquittal,
both penally and politically.
Yet, what kind of “margin” is that, when the two most prominent
parliamentary representatives of LAOS passionately support this
book? The first, A. Georgiadis, declared that this book “is his
favorite” (!!!), and promoted it during his TV programme. The
other, Th. Plevris, was the nazi’s counsel in court for the trial
and also claimed that the book was a “scientific writing”, that
the Jewish religion is racist, and that the anti-racist law is
anti-democratic. We point here that K. Plevris has been a founding
member of LAOS and a candidate of that party in previous parliamentary
elections. These facts are not accidental: The leader of LAOS
himself, G. Karatzaferis, has previously claimed that the Youth
Ministry should be given to the open nazis of “Chrysi Avgi” (Golden
Dawn), while in the 2002 local elections he had four nazis of
Chrysi Avgi as candidates.
It is obvious that the concealment of the trial and of the conviction of the nazi K. Plevris from the people, as well as the bad atmosphere of the trial is the result of a co-ordinated effort by strong forces within the political system to support the nazi K. Plevris and even more to cover up the LAOS party ties with him. If the nazi’s trial was given the proper publicity, then it is uncertain whether LAOS would have entered the parliament. Besides, the concealment of the conviction boosts the spreading of anti-Semitism, which is the heart of nazism. One may hold his/her own explanation for the reasons the other parliamentary parties cover-up the LAOS party as a pro-nazi party. It is certain, though, that with their silence they assist it to its campaign to appear as the party supposedly representing the poor population while, at the same time, this party slowly but steadily incites among the people suffering from poverty a bloody split, that is the hatred towards immigrants with slogans like: “They deprive us of our jobs and our dignity”. In a country being plunged more and more in economic crisis, such slogans boost the fascists unless they are exposed and deterred soon.
We call upon the democrats to demand the conviction of the nazi at the trail in front of the Court of Appeals, and, even more, to demand that the trial gets a lot of publicity. Unless this happens, even the conviction will be enforced only in papers so that the country is not exposed in front of the international public opinion.
DEMAND THAT THE NAZI BE CONVICTED AGAIN BY THE COURT OF APPEAL
(Wednesday, 17/9, 1st five-member court, Loukareos & Alexandras Av., 6th fl., 9 a.m.)
Gathering - Discussion at the offices of the Antinazi Initiative
Tuesday, 16/9, 7:30 p.m.
HALKOKONDYLI
35, 5th fl., tel-fax: 2105232553, www.antinazi.gr, info@antinazi.gr
ANNOUNCEMENT / CALL BY THE ANTI-NAZI INITIATIVE
SO
THAT ATHENS 2007 WILL NOT BE MADE INTO ANOTHER BERLIN OF 1933
Everybody to the Athens Appeals Court on 3rd December
SO THAT THE PRO-NAZI JUDICIAL EXCESSES OF 11TH
SEPTEMBER ARE NOT REPEATED
So that Plevris, the precursor of genocide, is not acquitted
Anti-Nazi
Initiative calls upon all democratic people to raise the alarm, come
to court and support the democratically-minded witnesses and counsel
for the plaintiffs in the trial against the Nazi K Plevris and the newspaper
“Eleftheros Kosmos”, which began on 11th September and was adjourned
to be reconvened on 3rd December (for more information on the indictment
against K. Plevris for his anti-Semitic book “Jews, the whole truth”
refer to http://www.antinazi.gr/english/frameup.htm).
Anti-fascist friends, this is no ordinary trial. It is not a trial in
which a small minority group of Nazi racists are denounced by democratically-minded
people and punished by the authorities in some European country. It
is not just a case of one extoller of the virtues of the Third Reich
producing a repulsive 1,400-page-long book calling upon people to rid
our country of Jews, and it is not just about the fact that the Jews
of this country together with non-Jewish anti-fascists take this person
to court for extraordinary and blatant violation of international laws
against racial prejudice. It is not about pursuing advocates of racial
violence from the fringes of society so distasteful to some theoretical
defenders of “freedom of speech”.
No. This trial is a matter of life and death in respect of political
democracy in our country. September 11th showed that the country we
live in does not practise even rudimentary democracy. September 11th
2007 will go down in the judicial and political history of this country
and the whole of Europe as the day when, 60 years after World War II,
a court in a European country acted in defence of Nazis and racists,
turning against their victims and those who defended them.
At the outset the court made sure it removed the counsel representing
the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) and the Jewish
woman Gilbert who is a member of Greek Helsinki Monitor from the proceedings
on the “grounds” that the book did not affect the plaintiffs (i.e. the
Jews) directly and that it is up to the state to defend anyone who may
have been wronged by the book. This having been done, the witnesses
for the plaintiffs were left without any support in the face of the
unbelievable procedure that followed, which seemed more like a trial
in Hitler’s Germany of 1936 than one in a European country in 2007.
As there was no one to defend the witnesses for the plaintiffs, the
court launched into an infringement of their rights. In other words
it constantly interrupted them, commented sarcastically about their
being quaint or uneducated, did not concern itself at all with what
was stated in the charges and forbade the witnesses to mention the laws
against racial discrimination. In this way, it was like the witnesses
for the plaintiffs were being accused right from the outset. It was
the intention of the court to make the witnesses for the plaintiffs
be regarded either as opponents of free speech (this coming from the
public prosecutor) or quaint folk making a lot of fuss about a non-existent
threat of racial discrimination (this coming from the presiding judge).
The protagonist and “shining star” of this onslaught was Public Prosecutor
Lazarakos whose rich verbal assault included declaring his stance that
Mr Plevris’ Nazi monstrosity was a piece of “scientific writing” and
that the author was a “qualified historian and a scientist”. As one
of the witnesses for the plaintiffs fervently and vociferously refused
to accept this definition of the author, the public prosecutor even
reached the point of threatening to have her arrested and put in a cell.
This all took place amid applause, loud laughter and interruptions from
the Nazis gathered in the courtroom.
What follows is taken from statements made in court:
- The Public Prosecutor started questioning Anna Stai of Antinazi Initiative
and the first witness for the plaintiffs (it lasted an hour and a half).
He began: “Let’s start with this question so that we can assess
the validity of your testimony. What is your educational background?”
The following exchange took place later with Irene Koutelou, the second
witness for the plaintiffs who is also from Anti-Nazi Initiative:
Public Prosecutor: “So, you are qualified in law. Very
good. Let me ask then what an offence of endangerment is. Never mind
now. We might take it up later”.
Judge (sarcastically): “When she takes her examinations”.
Koutelou: “I have already passed my examinations. I am
a practising lawyer”.
- The Public Prosecutor...
Nazi writer Plevris must be condemned
Dear Friends,
The nazi
Kostas Plevris has been prosecuted according to the Greek anti-discrimination
law, and will be on trial on September 5, 2007, before the penal court
of Athens, for publishing a book entitled “Jews, the whole truth”. Along
with him, the editor and two columnists of the fascist newspaper “Eleftheros
Kosmos” (Free World) also go on trial.
The nazi writer propagates genocidal hatred for the Jews, glorifies
Hitler, the “Aryan race”, and the “Third Reich” in this book, which
has already sold thousands of copies. Hitler is only criticized for
the mere reason of not clearing Europe of the Jews. As one can read
in Pg. 852: “afterwards, history of humankind will accuse him (Hitler)
of having done nothing to rid Europe of the Jews, though he could…”
This prosecution is of great importance because the pro-Hitler and anti-Semitic literature thrives in Greece. It’s only in Greece, among all other European countries, that dozens of pro-Hitler magazines and books pro-Hitler or specifically anti-Semitic – like the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” that has been a best seller – are being sold in nearly every kiosk and in bookstores even big ones. However, the state and judicial authorities do nothing to deal with this oversupply of hate and nazi propaganda, though the law obliges them to. This prosecution against the most overt nazi was the result of a charge brought by the Greek Jews (Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece), and of a supporting memorandum submitted by the Antinazi Initiative.
The peculiarity of Greece in comparison with the other European countries – with the exception of the more and more anti-Semitic Russia – is that anti-Semitism here is not a marginal ideology of a minority, but a mainstream ideological current. Dominant political forces within the Greek parties have been hiding their anti-Semitism before the EU, but they have been cultivating it at the base of society for many years now, by using the cliche: the Jews and their illegal fascist state, Israel, dominate the US foreign policy and through that policy they attempt to subjugate the nations.
Quite characteristic of that attitude is the fact that all parliamentary parties in Greece are in favour of the legal status of the overtly nazi party “Golden Dawn” (“Chrysi Avgi”). In fact the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Press invite “Golden Dawn” at the inter-party meetings held at pre-election periods to allocate TV time for the parties participating to the elections! Also, no-one should forget that Greece is the only country of the EU that wholeheartedly stood by the Serbian fascists during the war in Bosnia, and shielded the Greek nazis that took part in the genocidal massacre of Srebrenica leaving them unpunished for their crimes.
This explains Plevris’ impudence to bring a charge against his accusers claiming that they slander him!
The Antinazi
Initiative calls upon all European democrats:
-To demand that the nazi K. Plevris, as well as his collaborators, be
condemned by the court on 5 September 2007.
-To make this case against K. Plevris widely known in their countries,
and to denounce the anti-Semitic phenomenon in Greece.
Sincerely
Yours
For the Antinazi Initiative (ANI)
Anna Stai
Irene Koutelou
P.S For your information we cite hereafter some extracts from the book of K. Plevris which the Antinazi Initiative has submitted to the Public Prosecutor and which are included in the accusation act.
Pg. 600: ... to begin with I declare that I am a nazi, a fascist, a racist, an anti-democrat, an anti-Semite” (first edition. In the second the words “a nazi, a fascist” have been omitted)
Pg. 742: “That’s what the Jews deserve. For it’s the only way they understand: firing squad within 24 hours...”
Pg. 269:
“Any Greek, any man who is aware of the subversive activity of Jewish
Zionism should mobilise himself as an individual, against the Jews.
At start, it is required that he/she does the following:
…Whenever you identify Jewish interference, you should prevent it by
denouncing it, following any other required activity”
PRESS
RELEASE
(Athens,
Octomber 26, 2005)
The Antinazi Initiative denounces the scandalous impunity of the nazis of “Golden Dawn” that continue their murderous activity undisturbed. Recently they attacked to two young people at Monastiraki injuring seriously one of them. This attack happened almost simultaneously with the third in a row postponement of the trial of members of “Golden Dawn” accused for a similar bloody attack that happened in November 2002. The whole political regime that still recognizes legal status to the nazis is responsible for their impunity.
PRONAZI IRVING IS UNWANTED IN GREECE
From
the beginning of October, the website of the pronazi historian David Irving
hosts an “invitation” to the presentation of the Greek edition of his
new book “The War between Generals” (David Irving’s famous D-DAY history,
as he calls it) at the hall of the Association of Journalists of Athens
Daily Newspapers (ESIEA). The event at which Irving is also going to give
speech on the position of Greece during Second World War is organized
by the publishing house “IOLKOS” on October 25, just three days before
October 28, day of national celebration for the Greek antifascist struggle
in 1940-1941. The news was also presented at the nazi portal “Meandros”.
Irving has already been condemned in Britain after a trial that lasted
5 years, for Holocaust denial, racism and antisemitism while his entrance
is forbidden to several countries such as France, Germany and Canada.
It would be a great provocation for democracy in Greece and Europe, if
that man, a symbol for nazis worldwide, succeeded, to come to Greece,
state member of EU, to present his well known and widely denounced, anti-Semitic
and pronazi arguments, and even more to do this in the hall of Greek journalists.
As soon as the organization of the event became known, the Antinazi Initiative,
protested to ESIEA verbally and in writing, asking not to give Irving
any space to present his book. The Board of ESIEA decided finally not
to accept Irving, and characterized him unwanted as propagator of historic
revisionism, Holocaust denial, an anti-Semite and racist, while the whole
matter had great publicity at the press. The Central Council of Israelites
of Greece also protested against Irving’s visit.
Nevertheless, Irving has not cancelled his trip and now states that he
is still going to present his book in Greece in some other place “to be
announced soon”. In fact this will not be the first time for him. Two
years ago, in April 2003, Irving had given a speech at the hall of war
museum given to him by the Greek army officers who attended the event
together with a member of the Parliament, and, of course, lots of members
of the Greek nazis of “Golden Dawn”. All together applauded the presentation
of Irving’s book “Hitler’s War” published by “Govostis” in Greek where
he attempted to excuse Hitler’s responsibilities for Holocaust.
The Antinazi Initiative has called every state, collective or private
organization and every citizen to refuse to give any space in Greece to
the apologist for barbarism.
PRESS
RELEASE OF ANTINAZI INITIATIVE
(Athens,
Octomber 10, 2005)
The
Antinazi Initiative welcomes the decision of the Association of Journalists
of Athens Daily Newspapers not to give its conference hall to the pro-nazi
British author David Irving. Irving, the idol of nazis worldwide, has
been condemned in Britain for “denial of the Holocaust”, as a “racist”
and “anti-Semitist”, while the entrance to many countries has been forbidden
to him.
We call upon every state, collective, or private organism and every citizen
of our country to give no space to the apologist for barbarism.
NEWSLETTER
OF ANTINAZI INITIATIVE FOR THE CANCELLATION OF THE NAZI FEST IN GREECE
(Athens, September 19, 2005)
The notorious euro-fest organized in Greece by the nazis of “Golden Dawn”
never happened! The Greek government banned the euro-fest. This ban consists
a great antifascist victory for Greece and for Europe. This is also the
first time that the Greek nazis faced ban after almost 20 years of unbelievable
immunity and non-punishment by the Greek political regime.
The Antinazi Initiative at first put up posters in Athens inviting the
government to ban the nazi fest and the political parties to take a stand.
Then we addressed an appeal to Greek and European antifascists to sign
a protest letter to the prime minister. The response to this appeal was
great especially at international level. The Central Jewish Council of
Greece, had also requested the ban of the festival ever since the organization
of the event became known.
The matter gained publicity day by day and protests were made from the
Jewish organizations of abroad like CRIF, Wiesenthal Center, and also
from European antiracist organizations and networks. It was made known
lately that a representation of OSCE would come to Athens to assure that
the government has taken all necessary measures against nazi fest. Furthermore,
protests from many sides reached the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Under these very strong international pressures the Greek government shifted
its initial position that the nazi fest cannot be banned. On September
6, 2005, a few days before the announced dates for the festival (16-18
September), the governmental spokesman stated that the government bans
it. Immediately afterwards, the Minister of Public Order stated that the
police will take all appropriate measures to prevent it. The outcome was
that the nazis could not find any place in Greece to accept their gathering
as there were local reactions. In the meantime on September 13, 2005,
as a result of their first great political and moral defeat, their leading
member Antonis Androutsopoulos, better known as “Periandros”, wanted and
curiously not arrested for seven years now, gave himself up to the authorities
and was sent to prison to serve a four years sentence.
On September 15, 2005, the “Golden Dawn” announced at its weekly newspaper
that on September 17, 2005 (supposedly 2nd day of the festival) an event
would take place at its offices, the subject of which would be: “The bans
do not intimidate ideologists!”.
On September 16, 2005 there was no sign of the festival in Greece. At
the same night the nazis distributed handouts at the center of Athens
informing that the next day, September 17, in the afternoon, they would
organize a protest gathering in Athens, a few meters far from their offices.
In the morning of September 17, at their newspaper «Eleftheros Kosmos»
(Free World), they announced that actually the festival had already taken
place in a town of Italy – Latina and that it was cancelled in Greece
due to the ban.
At the same day, in the afternoon, around 18.30, not more than 100 nazis
gathered at the announced spot. It was obvious that the government, in
order to lessen the defeat of “Golden Dawn”, allowed them this gathering
outside their offices. Nevertheless such gatherings were always allowed
to them by the governments so far, something that was virtually accepted
by the whole official political world.
At the same time, near the location of the nazi gathering, two anti-gatherings
took place: one was held by the organizations of non – parliamentary left
at Omonoia square and the second by groups of anarchists nearer to the
offices of “Golden Dawn”.
Strong police forces closed the roads leading to the nazi gathering preventing
those who participated to the anti-gatherings to reach it. About one hour
later the nazis went back to their offices and the anti-gathering at Omonoia
Square dispersed. It was at that moment that a squad of so-called anarchists,
for no reason, dropped petrol bombs and stones against policemen, burnt
cars and broke store windows, after having first burnt a Greek flag. Unfortunately,
for one more time, the nazi gathering was facilitated morally and politically
by the violent acts of the so-called anarchists that, as usually, were
tolerated by the police and remained unpunished.
ANI believes that any anti-gathering against the nazis in order to be
effective and not to contribute to the vilification of antifascism in
front of people, should in the first place denounce those systematic provocateurs,
whose activity the whole political regime virtually tolerates and covers.
ANI welcomes the wide international solidarity and thanks all the antifascists
that responded to its action alert. A good start has already been made.
The next objective is to have “Golden Dawn”, a cancerous nazi tumour within
European Union, outlawed.
PRESS
RELEASE OF ANTINAZI INITIATIVE
(September 18, 2005)
The
ban of the nazi fest was a political blow of tremendous significance for
the nazi and their protectors. The ban was mainly a result of the international
outcry and pressure that forced the government to shift from its initial
position. However, this government, in order to lessen the nazis defeat,
allowed them to hold a gathering, as every government has allowed them
so far, and the whole official political world has virtually accepted.
The nazi gathering was morally and politically facilitated once more by
a squad of so-called anarchists, who set a Greek flag on fire and vandalized
at the center of Athens with the shielding of the police.
Any anti-gathering against the nazis in order to be effective and not
to contribute to the vilification of antifascism also, should in the first
place denounce those systematic provocateurs, whose activity the whole
political regime virtually tolerates and covers.
PRESS
RELEASE OF ANTINAZI INITIATIVE
REGARDING
THE TURNING IN OF NEO-NAZI ANDROUTSOPOULOS
(September 15, 2005)
The neo-nazi Antonis Androutsopoulos, leading member of “Golden Dawn”, better known as “Periandros”, turned himself in on September 13, 2005. Androutsopoulos is wanted since June 1998, for leading a team of ten thugs that brutally attacked a student, Dimitris Kousouris who was badly injured, and other two people. At the time, the police was accused for unwillingness to arrest the perpetrators although the incident happened near the courtbuildings of Athens that are guarded by police forces.
In April 2004, Androutsopoulos was convicted in absentia to 4 years of imprisonment for "organising a criminal gang, illegal possession and use of weapons". Also he was charged with premeditated attempted murder. His trial for this is still pending.
It is also highly questionable according to journalistic research that Androutsopoulos ever left Greece in order to flee to Venezuela (as he claims now), taking into consideration testimonies of persons that have seen him in Peloponnisos and Athens.
The fact that Androutsopoulos remained free for seven years is related to the general status of immunity that is scandalously granted to the nazis of “Golden Dawn” by the whole political regime for decades now.
Irrespective of any expediency that lies behind Androutsopoulos turning in-arrest, this is an important democratic victory that, as we believe, is related to the weakening of the political position of nazis following the international outcry against their festival and the domestic reactions.
The
Antinazi Initiative calls the democrats to constant alert until:
The governmental declaration for ban of the nazi fest is implemented.
The government complies with CERD (Convention for the Elimination of Racist
Discriminations) and outlaws nazi gangs.
PRESS
RELEASE OF ANTINAZI INITIATIVE
(September 7, 2005)
Following
international and domestic protests, the government was forced to declare
that the pan-european nazi meeting in Greece is banned. Nevertheless,
the democrats should be alert until the actual implementation of this
declaration, as still the great scandal for all Europe remains, namely
the legal function in our country of "Golden Dawn", an overt
nazi organization.
PRESS RELEASE OF THE ANTINAZI INITIATIVE
The Antinazi
Initiative calls upon the democrats to stoutly oppose the devious argument
that the nazi meeting in Greece should be allowed so as not to violate
the freedom to assemble and the freedom of expression.
These kinds of freedom are not recognized to the nazi in any European
country. In the same way that the pedophiles, for instance, are not allowed
to gather and propagandize their “opinion”, even more so the overt Hitler
fans don’t have the right to assemble in public and support their “opinions”,
according to the law, the constitution and the international conventions.
Because propagandizing nazism AUTOMATICALLY means incitement to racial
violence and to anti-Jewish genocide. It is indicative that the nazi themselves
call their meeting a “hate-wave festival”. It is quite alarming for the
democracy in our country the fact that the Greek prime minister refuses
to ban the meeting so far and that the leader of the opposition does not
demand its ban.
Athens, September 2, 2005
ANTINAZI
INITIATIVE’S ACTION ALERT AGAINST
THE “PAN-EUROPEAN” NAZI MEETING IN GREECE
| GREEK
AND EUROPEAN DEMOCRATS & ANTI-FASCISTS! |
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| We call upon the political parties, the trade unions, the political and social forces to take a stand on this scandal, which is shameful for our country and contemptuous for the millions of victims of the nazi brutality! |
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THE NAZI MARCH HAS BEING BANNED IN WUSIENTEL OF GERMANY
We
are informed that the nazi march, which was about to take place on August
20 in Wusientel –Germany– towards the grave of the criminal Rudolf Hess,
was finally banned by the German authorities.
We will inform with anything new that comes to our attention on this matter.
POSTER
OF ANTINAZI INITIATIVE AGAINST NAZI INTERNATIONAL MEETING TO BE HELD IN
GREECE IN SEPTEMBER (JULY 2005)
60
years since Hitler's genocidal war, nazis from all over Europe are about
to gather in the Peloponnese in September (16-18/9). The organizer of
this meeting is the nazi organization "Golden Dawn". The government and
the parliamentary parties bear the responsibility for that huge provocation
against the democratic people of our country. Opposite to what happens
everywhere in democratic Europe, they've been allowing and tolerating
the existence and action of an overt nazi organization, such as "Golden
Dawn", for decades. It is because of this tolerance and shielding that
"Golden Dawn", being unpunished so far, has taken part in the genocidal
army of the criminal Karadzic in Bosnia. Within the bounds of this reasoning
of tolerance, the governmental spokesman, Th. Rousopoulos, referring to
the nazi gathering, stated: "there is no evidence that any formal demand
to hold the neo-nazi meeting has been submitted". This is actually shielding
of the nazi gathering because in the democratic countries the nazis HAVE
NO RIGHT to organize meetings, either they ask permission or not. The
spokesman of the police, Oikonomou, set it even more clearly: "we cannot
forbid a peaceful meeting, where the participants don't carry guns" (from
the Greek newspaper "NEA", 6.7.05).
BAN THE NAZIS. WHY?
- The Board of Deputies of British Jews condemns
- European Jewish Congress Calls Greek Neo-Nazi’s Ruling “Miscarriage of Justice”
- Greek Daily newspaper “Eleftherotypia”,
columnist “Ios” (April 1, 2009)
(Greek original at http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.ellada&id=31354 Conclusions reached after Kostas Plevris’ acquittal
A Nazi Justified
“IOS” writes - Suddeutsche Zeitung
Ressort: Politik
URL: /politik/885/463493/text/
Datum und Zeit: 31.03.2009 - 10:59
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- «Judeophobie a la grecque : le cas Plevris» Andreas Pantazopoulos
Press Pelease, September 2, 2005
The Antinazi Initiative calls upon the democrats to stoutly oppose the devious argument that the nazi meeting in Greece...