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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Moira Lavelle

After Golden Dawn’s demise, a dangerous new far right flourishes in Greece

Amid heightened tensions, two men were killed in a drive-by shooting in the Athens suburb of Neo Iraklio on November 1, 2013, outside the local branch of the far-right party Golden Dawn [Simela Pantzartzi/EPA]

Athens, Greece – Far-right activists and neo-Nazi organisations in Greece recently called for a pan-European memorial in Athens, to commemorate 10 years since two members of the self-described Nazi organisation, Golden Dawn, were killed.

On November 1, 2013, Manolis Kapelonis and Giorgos Fountoulis – both in their 20s – were fatally shot in a drive-by attack outside the party’s office, an apparent revenge assault for the murder weeks earlier of the anti-fascist rapper, Pavlos Fyssas, by a Golden Dawn member.

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