Continues today Monday, the Golden Dawn trial in the second degree. However, Ilias Kasidiaris, convicted of running a criminal organization, chose not to appear, as part of the five-day leave he received from Domokos prisons.

THE Kostas Papadakis Advocate civil action in the case of A.A states in his statement:

1) Kasidiaris participated without legal obstacles in the municipal elections a few months after the parliamentary elections of 25.6.2023 whose party is the real leader, the “Spartians” were left, despite the amendments, undisturbed to participate and enter the Parliament.

2) His daily, months-long advertising during the period of the amendments, and indeed as anti-systemic according to the characterizations of government ministers, apparently encouraged him, in combination with the racist, anti-refugee and repressive policy of the ND, as well as the re-emergence of the murderous Nazi and racist violence in Athens, to announce that he will win the Municipality of Athens. Despite the recent rise of the extreme right and the spectacular collapse of the Bakoyannis candidacy, it managed to muster only a few votes more than those of the Spartans in the Municipality of Athens in June 2023. Not even the votes of the entire far right, but almost half of what it got in 2019 .

3) Kasidiaris took a five-day leave from prison by unanimous decision of the Domokos Prison Council on 20.10.2023. At a time when the prisoners are in a just and suppressed mobilization against the prison law which, among other things, prohibits the obtaining of licenses and that the prohibition of licenses, either legally, or as an assessment based on rational criteria, to prisoners whom the power system feels are its real opponents is the rule, the deputy head of A.A. he takes leave. It is another example of favorable treatment following Michaloliakos’ extended stay at the National Rehabilitation Center when other inmates are denied basic nursing care.

4) His electoral failure shows that the limits of the effort of the new A.A. to come back politically are finite. The people of Athens unequivocally refused to give him the political power he asked for. But the fascist threat does not disappear. In the end, his announced appearance in court today has not taken place so far, neither by himself, nor by his followers. Only the world of the anti-fascist struggle was present. We don’t rest, we don’t limit ourselves to institutions. The only guarantee for dealing with it is the massive and unifying anti-fascist struggle, with the first stop being the mobilizations against the international fascist meeting of N. Heraklion on 1.11.2023. Especially for this reason, we call on the government not to leave undisturbed the fascists who will respond to come to Athens, as happened in August with the BBB Nazis, resulting in the murder of Michalis Katsouris. The responsibility is hers.