Golden Dawn deputy leader evades arrest after
jail sentence
Greek neo-Nazi ideologue Christos Pappas will not turn
himself in, says lawyer
Agence
France-Presse
Fri 23 Oct
2020 09.01 BSTLast modified on Fri 23 Oct 2020 09.22 BST
A Greek
neo-Nazi ideologue and deputy leader of the Golden Dawn party has evaded arrest
Friday as dozens of fellow members headed to prison following a group
conviction.
Christos
Pappas, whose father played a key role in a 1967 military coup, has been
sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for his role in running Golden Dawn
as a criminal organisation.
His lawyer
on Friday said he would not turn himself in, and a search of at least five
homes linked to Pappas has failed to locate him, state TV ERT said.
The former
furniture store owner, whose lieutenant-general father helped install dictator
Georgios Papadopoulos in 1967, is an admirer of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
and collector of fascist memorabilia.
Pappas, 58,
had also evaded arrest in 2013, when senior Golden Dawn members had been
rounded up following the murder of the anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, the
crime that led to the organisation’s undoing.
The Golden
Dawn trial, which began in 2015, has been described as one of the most
significant in Greek political history.
The
organisation’s founder and long-term leader, Nikos Michaloliakos, has also been
sentenced to more than 13 years in prison, alongside several senior party
members.
Michaloliakos’s
wife and other party cadres and members received lesser sentences. Some of them
have walked free pending their appeal.
The Golden
Dawn convicts will be shared out between at least four prisons, ERT said Friday.
The former
fringe party won 18 seats in parliament in 2012 after tapping into
anti-austerity and anti-migrant anger during Greece’s decade-long debt crisis.
It failed
to win a single seat in last year’s parliamentary election.
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