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Helena Smith in Athens

Prison release of Golden Dawn founder angers Greek anti-fascists

Nikos Michaloliakos waves to people on the street wearing masks
Nikos Michaloliakos leaving his house in Athens after his conviction in 2020. Photograph: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP

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 been convicted of operating a criminal organisation that posed as a political party.

Nikos 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.

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