State prosecutor reportedly opposed release of neo-Nazi Nikos Michaloliakos four years into 13-and-a-half-year sentence
The unrepentant founder of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, who insisted followers addressed him as the Fuhrer, has been released from prison four years into a sentence of 13 and a half years, having beenNikos Michaloliakos, a Holocaust denier and admirer of Adolf Hitler, was allowed to return to his home in Athens this week although his “conditional discharge” was only made public on Thursday.
He said operatives of the far-right, ultra-nationalist party still ran branches in Thessaloniki despite it being officially disbanded. The discharge, agreed by a judicial council in the central town of Lamia, stipulated that Michaloliakos was banned from fraternising with other far-right activists and would have to present himself at a local police station once a month. He was also forbidden from leaving the greater Athens region of Attica.
Golden Dawn hit squads sowed such terror on the streets the party was branded Europe’s most violent neo-fascist group. Gangs, often riding motorbikes, dressed in black and wielding batons, knuckledusters and worse, actively sought out and targeted enemies, real and perceived, starting with immigrants and leftists.Analysts expressed surprise at the speed with which Michaloliakos’ request for release had been handled.
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