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French nazis kill teenager

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This video from France is about a demonstration in Lille on 6 June to commemorate Clément Méric, killed the day before by nazis in Paris.

By Pierre Mabut in France:

Student killed by fascists in central Paris

14 June 2013

An 18-year-old student and anti-fascist, Clément Méric, was beaten to death by a group of fascist thugs in the afternoon of June 5 near the St. Lazare rail station in central Paris. He was declared brain dead the next day at the La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.

Clément Méric arrived late to meet a group of friends at a private sale of casual clothes at a store next to the station. The friends had by chance come across a group of five skinhead thugs, also at the sale, bearing swastika tattoos and T-shirts with Nazi slogans like “white power” and “blood and honour”, which provoked a verbal exchange between the two groups inside the store. Clément and his friends were then attacked with knuckledusters by the thugs outside the store.

The medical examination said the young student died from brutal injuries to the face. A 20-year-old youth employed as a security guard has been charged with deliberate assault resulting in death without premeditation—a lesser charge than manslaughter, which the prosecutor initially sought.

The five suspects are said to be members of the Revolutionary Nationalist Youth (JNR), who serve as marshals for the fascist group Third Way.

Méric was studying at the elite Paris university Sciences Po, where friends said he was “someone whose company everyone enjoyed”. Méric’s former head teacher in Brest, his hometown, said he was a brilliant student and “courteous and respectful of others”.

“He was killed for his ideas”, said a student friend. Méric was in fact a member of the anarchist-influenced AAPB (Paris Suburbs Anti-Fascist Action) group, which has been active in support of the gay marriage law so detested by the parliamentary right-wing UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) and its fascist acolytes. Clément had recovered from leukaemia two years ago.

The Socialist Party (PS) government has launched a procedure to ban the fascist Third Way and JNR held responsible for the killing. The JNR was founded in 1987 and was revived in 2010 by skinhead Serge Ayoub, nicknamed “Batskin” in the 1980s for his regular use of baseball bats on leftist opponents.

According to the daily Le Figaro, the JNR “consists of about 30 members, all skinheads and very muscular, dressed in black, some of them with impressive tattoos”. Their slogan, copied from Mussolini’s fascists in Italy, is “Believe, Obey, Combat”. They march “every year (on the second weekend of May) in a very martial style, in line and in step, through Rivoli Street in Paris along with other groups of the extreme radical right”, the paper notes.

Rallies to protest against the killing of Clément Méric and honour his memory were held in several major cities throughout France on June 6. …

A section of the conservative UMP has mobilised the fears and insecurity of backward rural elements behind an anti-gay marriage movement, attracting and further strengthening ultra right-wing forces. …

The student union to which Méric belonged, Union Syndicale Solidaires, expressed its anger against the killing and warned against “the climate of hate sustained by the political speeches that stigmatise and are not exclusive to the National Front and fascist groups.”

Thousands of protesters gathered outside the town hall in Argenteuil near Paris on Friday of last week. They were enraged and upset after a series of racist attacks against Muslim women: here.

A pregnant Muslim woman who was attacked in a Paris suburb has miscarried her baby, her lawyer said on Tuesday: here.

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Greek governmental censorship and neo-nazism

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Dawn of the Greeks blog in Greece writes today about this video:

Thousands of people have stayed until very late in the morning yesterday outside the main building of public television (ERT) in Agia Paraskeui in solidarity with the journalists.

Live stream: journalists and technicians occupying Greece’s public broadcaster ERT. In Greek. Displays also footage from the big protest outside. Digital transmission was cut by the Greek government at 11:15 pm Tuesday June 11th 2013. Analog transmission is still possible.

Source: keeptalkinggreece.

New provocation by Golden Dawn MP Michalis Arvanits [sic; Arvanitis], who not only questioned the Holocaust but also gave his own interpretation by saying that Nazis simply burned all the bodies of prisoners who had died in the concentration camps from typhoid fever. The neonazi MP has also attacked with unprecedented phrases other political parties such as ND, PASOK and SYRIZA which he described as “political crap”, and called the communists “waste and cancer of the Hellenic race”: here. See also here. And here.

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Greek nazi politicians armed and dangerous

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This video from Greece says about itself:

The neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is at the centre of another political row in Greece after one of its MPs was expelled from parliament amid cries of “Heil Hitler”.

The sitting president had already warned Panayiotis Iliopoulos for repeatedly violating parliamentary rules by insulting fellow deputies.

After he had called them “goats”, “scoundrels” and “wretched people”, security guards were called to lead him away.

From daily The Morning Star in Britain:

Far-right MP sets off gun licence probe

Friday 31 May 2013

A fascist MP’s handgun went off at Athens airport on Thursday, sparking a review of politicians’ firearms licences.

Golden Dawn MP Antonis Gregos’s licensed pistol fired as he handed it to officials during check-in.

Police are looking into how a bullet was left in the chamber.

Two-thirds of Golden Dawn’s 18 MPs are thought to be among the 50 gun-wielding parliamentarians.

Another fascist MP has been accused of trying to pull a pistol on the mayor of Athens during an altercation over Golden Dawn’s “soup kitchen of hate” last month, in which the MP is alleged to have punched a 12-year-old girl.

MPs are currently debating an anti-racism law designed to tackle a rise in anti-immigrant violence led by Golden Dawn.

See also here. And here.

Small protests are blocking streets in central Athens at least twice a day, the Greek government complained on Tuesday: here.

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Greek nazi violence against Iraq war refugee

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This video says about itself:

29 Dec 2012

The Network of Information and Solidarity for Antifascist and Anti-repressive Action in Greece presents:

A documentary film on Golden Dawn, its promotion by the media, its co-operation with Greek police and the struggle against fascism in Greece.

VERSION FRANCAISE: HELAS POUR NOUS: here.

From dawnofthegreeks blog:

Last Saturday: Three bloody racist attacks with knife in Thessaloniki

Posted on May 31, 2013

Saturday 25 May in the center of Thessaloniki at 02:00 am, within the premises of Aristoteleio university, a group of unknown [people] approached an immigrant from Iraq and asked him where he came from. They threatened him saying, as he complained, “get up and leave” “go back to your country”. Immediately after, one of them pulled a knife and stabbed him in the chest. The immigrant was seriously injured over a wide area of the chest and still remains in the hospital.

The same day in the morning a groups of Greeks insulted immigrant street-vendors in the heart of Thessaloniki at Aristotelous street.

A third incident came to supplement the bloody racist activities in the city. The same day in the afternoon, two immigrants were seriously injured, in an attack with a knife, one in the neck as both immigrants indicated to the Doctors of the World as well as the local authorities and police.

Turkish Kurd asylum seeker abducted in Athens and handed over to Turkish authorities: here.

Racist attacks against immigrants in Thessaloniki: here.

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Black Panthers against Greek nazis

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After Black Panthers in the USA, and in Israel, now in Greece.

This video is called Greeks Protest Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party After MP Slaps Female Opponent During Live Debate.

From Channel 4 News in Greece:

Tuesday 28 May 2013

Standing up to Golden Dawn in Greece

The economic crisis in Greece has led to a rise in support for the far-right Golden Dawn and an increase in racist attacks. Jamal Osman talks to one man who is fighting back.

Michael Chege and his friends patrol their neighbourhood in Athens, Greece, most nights. After many encounters with the neo-Nazi group, Golden Dawn, they set up their own brigade, nicknamed the Black Panthers. They want to protect themselves from the fascists who are targeting people who are not ethnic Greeks.

Since the economic crisis tore Greece apart, people have been trying to find someone to blame. Some blame immigrants for the high unemployment and crime. Racist attacks against immigrants have been rising steadily. In the last year alone, more than 150 racist attacks were recorded by police, but most go unreported.

Greece is a gateway to Europe and many immigrants travel there as an entry point in the hope of reaching the richer nations on the continent.

Newly arrived immigrants, who do not speak the language or have proper documentation, live in fear. But Michael and his friends are taking on the extremists.

‘We will exterminate them’

“I’m not afraid of this neo-Nazi, stupid, idiotic group,” he told me. “In WW2, they were crushed. In WW3, we will exterminate them out of the face of the earth.

“I am a member of the Black Panthers and everybody knows that. So I am giving them (Golden Dawn) a straight warning – don’t mess with black people, anyhow. And I mean it.”

Members of the Black Panthers rescue each other if one is attacked. Using mobile phones with instant messaging and social media, their response is swift. “It has turned our lives better, at least in our neighbourhood,” Michael told me.

Michael arrived in Greece from Kenya at eight months. Although he has lived there for 28 years, he is treated as a new immigrant. Police stop him on a regular basis to check his identification papers. So he has to carry a bag full of documents to prove that he is legal in the country.

Racist, anti-semitic, violent - the true face of Golden Dawn - watch Konstantinos Georgousis' film.

For immigrants, the situation in Greece is worsening. They accuse the Greek police of harassment. I joined one of the many police patrols as they rounded up immigrants.

We came across drug users but the police did not bother to chase them after they ran away, but carried on arresting immigrants, which seemed a more important job than dealing with drug users. Thousands of immigrants are languishing in detention centres.

‘Get respect’

Growing up in Greece, as the only black child in his school, he had to fight every day to “get respect” from fellow pupils. He took up martial arts at the age of seven and has been doing it since then. That gave him the confidence to confront people like Golden Dawn members.

One of his latest encounters happened while he was on a bus in the city. Two men with “a neo-Nazi look” entered the bus. Some of the passengers were signalling to Michael, telling him to “leave, run or get down”, but he defied it. One of the techniques he learnt in his martial arts lessons was that “when you see a danger, you don’t wait, you go for it and push out”.

Although the fight inside the bus was “really hard”, Michael left the scene with minor injuries. He said: “It is not the first time and certainly not the last time … if you need respect, you must earn it”.

‘Cannibals’

A day later, on live television, he challenged the Golden Dawn leader, Nikos Michaloliakos, who thinks Africans are cannibals. In the television debate, Michaloliakos said: “The pygmies are boiled and eaten by other blacks in Africa … and they’re considered special too.”

But when Michael asked him whether he had ever been to Africa to witness that, the far-right leader replied: “No, I only read about it in newspapers, I know what I’ve read in newspapers.” Consequently, the Golden Dawn media wing made a video mocking Michael.

Michael says it is unfortunate to be a “stranger in your own land”. Greece, where he spent all his life, is the only place he knows. But as a father, it is no longer about him. He does not want his children to experience the same abuses he has. So he wants to raise them in Kenya, where they will not be treated as foreigners.

Over the last week, tensions have risen in the Greek government over draft legislation against racist incitement and state financing of the fascist party Golden Dawn. While the conservative main government party New Democracy (ND) refused to support the law, its coalition partners, the social democratic PASOK and the Democratic Left (DIMAR), are supporting it: here.

The president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), Ronald S. Lauder, today expressed disappointment with Greece for its continued failure to adopt new legislation to combat hate speech, racism and the denial of the Holocaust. “It is very worrying that the mainstream parties in Athens are apparently unable to find a compromise on this important matter. Hate mongers and extremists such as the leaders of Golden Dawn are not only a threat to minorities such as the Jews; they are a threat to democracy as a whole. Hence, they ought to be fought vigorously by all democratic forces, and with the full force of the law,” Lauder declared: here.

Amid growing political anger over a rising number of incidents involving Golden Dawn MPs and firearms, the police have said that the licences of politicians who hold gun permits will be reviewed: here.

The 2nd annual Thessaloniki pride this year will take place on June 14th – 15th. The Pride like last year is sponsored by the municipality of the city and the major Giannis Boutaris. Last year neo-nazis and Christian fundamentalists unsuccessfully tried to protest against the right of LGBT community to organize the pride in the city after a call of Thessaloniki Bishop Anthimos: here.

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Mosque opens doors after fascist threats

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This video from Britain is called EDL nazis.

From daily The Morning Star in Britain:

Mosque fights racist threat by throwing open doors

Monday 27 May 2013

A Yorkshire mosque has responded to racist threats by throwing open its doors and inviting in the public, writes Peter Lazenby.

The mosque in Bull Lane, York, learned that fascist English Defence League (EDL) thugs planned to target it following the murder of off-duty soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich by two self-proclaimed “jihadists.”

Muslims across Britain were among those who condemned the killing, but the soldier’s death has been exploited by the EDL, British National Party, National Front and other fanatics to attack mosques, make racist attacks and fight with police.

When users of the York mosque heard of the EDL threats they decided to stage an open day.

Around 100 local people responded, dwarfing a tiny gathering of EDL supporters nearby.

Mosque elder and York University Professor Mohamed El-Gomati said: “Rather than have a shouting match outside we invited people in to have a discussion and show solidarity over a cup of tea with us.”

See also here.

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Greek nazis threaten New York movie audience

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This video from the USA says about itself:

28 Feb 2013

Trailer for the documentary Greek American Radicals.

Visit www.greek american radicals.com.

From dawnofthegreeks blog in Greece:

Golden Dawn disrupts New York film event

Posted on May 27, 2013

Last Saturday four Golden Dawn neo-nazis entered at the cultural center “Stathakio” located in Astoria – New York at a documentary film screening concerning Greek-migrants radicalism in the States and attempted to intervene in the post-film discussion using a megaphone but were ousted by the event organisers, shouting ‘Commies, you will die!’ on their way out. The neonazis in New York are trying to attract some attention by using the same tactics as the neo-nazis in Greece. The film presents the story of a Greek migrant in the States.

More about this, in Greek, is here.

Meanwhile, in Greece itself, also from dawnofthegreeksblog:

Antifascists in Chania shut down fascist food handout

May 27, 2013

A huge antifascist demonstration has been organized by left-wing and anarchist groups last Saturday in Chania (Crete Island). The racist “Greeks only” food handout of the neonazis was cancelled according the Greek website “tokaravani.gr”, shortly after the mobilization of the antifascists took to the streets. The participants according the same website, were actually focused on the counter-information of the local society of the city concerning the neo-nazi party activities and its ideological background. They were shouting slogans as well as tried to make a comparison of Golden Dawn with the nazi national socialist party.

More about this,in Greek, is here.

Here is a video about this.

Photos: Antifascists and residents protest in Argalasti (Pilio) near Volos against Golden Dawn: here.

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Greek nazis praise military dictatorship

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This video from Greece says about itself:

Greece’s Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos praises the country’s 1967-74 military dictatorship, speaking at Aspropyrgos, near Athens, on 7 June 2012. As shown on Alpha television.

This video says about itself:

Oct 28, 2012

Orthodox priests bless the new offices of Golden Dawn in the Greek city of Corinth. Present were four Golden Dawn MPs (Stathis Boukouras, Ilias Panagiotaros, Ilias Kasidiaris and Michalis Arvanitis) and a few hundred party members, supporters and bystanders. The blessing took place on Ochi Day, when Greeks remember the entry of their country into the Second World War.

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