Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn leader released from prison early

The Greek Neo-Nazi Party Golden Dawn’s leader Nikos Michalololiakos was released in a shorter time than half of his sentence from prison.

The state media, the far -right politician and the Holocaust deny were allowed to serve the rest of a judicial council’s 13 -year sentence on Friday on Friday for health reasons.

After five years of imprisonment, the 67 -year -old was angering the left -wing parties, arguing that the judiciary should not be resistant.

For the second time after the 2020 conviction of Michalololiakos on violent attacks on immigrants and political opponents carried out by Golden Dawn supporters, it was allowed for the second time.

The judicial officials were briefly published in May 2024 before they found that they did not show good enough and forced him to return to jail.

Michalololiakos founded and presided on a party of an anti-fascist musician and a party that depends on the murder of Egyptian fishermen and communist activists.

In 2012, Greece came third in nationalist voting, which was fueled by economic problems due to the country’s financial crisis.

Michalololiakos himself was a fan of Nazism and saluted Hitler at the party rallies. Although Golden Dawn officially rejected a Neo-Nazi movement, he adopted the iconography affected by Nazi.

He and former MPs were found guilty of running or belonging to the crime group.

Greece’s new Left Party, the state media said that the release of Michalololiakos was “a serious blow to collective memory and the struggle for democracy and justice,” he said, and the system of justice can not send a message of punishment to those who embodies hate and fascism “.

The country’s Communist Party KKE said that the decision should be overthrown and that Golden Dawn should add that “crimes are not limited to time in the consciousness of the people and young people”.