Golden Dawn trial: On October 7, Magda Fyssa testifies

The appellate trial for the criminal organization of the Golden Dawn.

The followers of the Golden Dawn had occupied all the seats assigned to them in the hall and welcomed the condemned Kasidiari and Hare with applause, slogans and cheers.

In the slogans of the Chrysaugits, her side Magdas Fyssa replied with “Paul lives, crush the Nazis».

At one point, the fans of Kasidiaris moved threateningly to the other side with the mother of the deceased musician, Pavlos protesting to the police: “What kind of police are you? Round up the fascists! Aren’t you a little ashamed?’

The hearing continued with tensions and objections from the side of the defendants.

The trial was adjourned until October 7, when the testimony of Magda Fyssa, who was called by the president, will begin.

However, the deposition could not start today as the microphones were not working and after lawyers and journalists protested that they could not hear, the president adjourned the meeting.

After the break and while Kasidiaris and Lagos were being transported by the police, their fans started to applaud. Instantly the opposite side started shouting anti-fascist slogans. The exchange of slogans ended almost immediately as the police began to usher the audience from each side towards the exits of the hall.

On the legal side…

Ilias Kasidiaris submitted to the Golden Dawn court an objection in which they requested that the prosecutor’s appeal to impose a higher sentence be decided, on the basis of which the other defendants who are concerned by the prosecutor’s intervention were also drafted.

The objections, which were rejected by the court, concerned 12 of the total defendants for whom the court is considering an appeal brought by the Appellate prosecutor after the first-instance conviction seeking longer sentences.

The appeal, which the defendants requested to be rejected today as inadmissible, was filed a few days after the conclusion of the first trial, by the Appellate Prosecutor Stelios Costarellos, deputy prosecutor in the first court, and concerns the seven sentenced to sentences of up to 13 years of the management group, but also the five convicted for the attempted murder of Egyptian fisherman Abuzid Ebaragh.

It should be noted that Mr. Kostarellos, stating that the members of the Directorate “exercised complete sovereignty over all the criminal events” committed by Golden Dawn, estimated that the imposed penalties should be more severe. Accordingly, he requests greater sentences for the perpetrators of the attack against the Egyptian fishermen, judging that the court did not correctly weigh neither the degree of their criminal disposition, nor the unprovoked attack they made, nor their humble motives as subordinates of the management group.

The defense of Ilias Kasidiaris, initially, and then the former Golden Dawn MP himself, told the court that the appeal of Mr. Kostarellos must be deemed inadmissible as it lacks, as they claim, a specific and detailed justification without mentioning specific personal issues. “There is no distinct reference to the person of Mr. Kasidiaris, but a general reference to the convicted,” said the lawyer of the convicted, who added that the appeal invokes a statement from the official page of Golden Dawn after the Fyssa murder, which Mr. Kostarellos considers it a “Kassidiaris statement”.

Taking the floor, the former MP himself told the court that he had immediately condemned the crime against Pavlos Fyssas. “The statement mentioned by Mr. Prosecutor is not mine. I condemned the crime in Parliament and in my statements. May your court deem the appeal of Mr. Prosecutor morally unacceptable because it is based on lies that we will see later.”

After Mr. Kasidiaris and the rest of those convicted as leaders of the criminal organization, Nikos Michaloliakos, Ilias Panagiotaros, Nikos Pappas, Ioannis Lagos, Artemis Matthaiopoulos and Giorgos Germenis, followed with the objection of inadmissible prosecutorial appeal, while the five convicted for the attempt followed homicide against the Egyptian fisherman.

The court rejected the objections, accepting a corresponding prosecutor’s proposal, which emphasized that Mr. Kostarellos exercised the possibility given to him by the legislation, legally and with thorough reasoning.

After the rejection of the objection raised first by Ilias Kasidiaris, the former member of parliament who was convicted in the first instance took the floor stating that he denies and repels the accusation which he characterized as “non-existent, unfounded, malicious that insults my personality and the rules of law”. Reading a text he had prepared, the accused referred to “political management of a criminal case” and argued that the aim of the whole case is to hurt the voices that touch on national issues.

Giannis Lagos also took the floor, who, through his defense, again asked for a suspension of the execution of his sentence. Stating that he knew his application would be rejected, the imprisoned MEP, using notes he had, reiterated his claims of a political trial. He also said that he voluntarily stayed at his home in Brussels after his conviction “when I could have escaped” and was taken to Domokos prisons even though I asked to go to Korydallos so that I could carry out my duties in the European Parliament. The defendant referred to incidents where he was prevented from carrying out his duties citing “political interference” with the aim of silencing him. He declared himself unrepentant for what he has done and denying the accusations.

Earlier, the objection of the invalidity of the summons of the convicted as the director of a criminal organization in the trial of Nikos Michaloliakos of Golden Dawn, which if accepted by the court, would lead to a postponement of the trial before the Five-member Court of Appeal of Athens, did not succeed.

The absent defendant, through his defense attorney Dimitris Papadelis, filed an objection of invalidity of the summons to the appellate court, arguing that it was served during the time period when Nikos Michaloliakos was in the Intensive Care Unit due to coronavirus. In addition, an objection of forgery was raised pointing out that the signature contained in the service document is not his trial.

The court unanimously rejected the request of Michaloliakos, who, from the beginning of the appellate trial, seems to be seeking its postponement, following a proposal by the prosecutor Kiriakis Stefanatos.

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