From Obscurity to National Limelight: The Dramatic Rise, Fall and Future Legacy of Golden Dawn
| Author | Chris Allen,Christina Verousi |
| DOI | 10.1177/20419058211000999 |
| Published date | 01 March 2021 |
| Date | 01 March 2021 |
22POLITICAL INSIGHT•MARCH 2021
On 7 October 2020, a trial of 69
defendants came to a close in
a Greek appeals court after ve
years. In the biggest trial of Nazi
criminality since Nuremberg, more than
70 years previously, the court found the
defendants – all members of the Golden
Dawn, until recently Greece’s third most
popular political party – guilty of a range
of oences including murder, attempted
From Obscurity to National Limelight:
The Dramatic Rise, Fall
and Future Legacy of
Golden Dawn
Golden Dawn took inspiration from Hitler and rose to become Greek’s
third most popular party. Christina Verousi and Chris Allen chart
Golden Dawn’s dramatic fall and find that the far-right remains a
potent force in Greek politics.
murder, the possession of illegal weapons,
and for participation in or the heading of,
a criminal organisation. The trial, which
examined a case le 1.5 terabytes in size
and heard from 216 witnesses, brought
together four cases: the brutal attacks
against Egyptian shermen in 2012; the
fatal stabbing of 34-year-old antifascist
musician Pavlos Fyssas (Killah P) in 2013,
whose death initiated the legal prosecution;
the assault of left-wing activists in the same
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