Thugs wearing the black T-shirts of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party are
carrying out attacks on immigrant markets and in public squares, according
to the United Nations, with victims speaking of areas in the capital which
are now strictly off limits.
Malik Abdulbasset, an Egyptian-born shopkeeper, found himself the target of
one of the mobs on Wednesday night after the barber across the road was
stabbed during a robbery.
Golden Dawn members led a crowd of enraged locals in a protest on Mikhail Voda
St that turned violent despite the presence of riot police.
While no one witnessed the attack on the barber, residents were adamant the
assailant was black.
After battering his Egyptian assistant, the mob turned on Mr Abdulbasset, who
had defied police to keep his shop open.
"I had to turn and point to my Greek children and my Greek wife and say, look I am Greek, we are Greek, if you want to kill us we cannot stop you but you are killing your own."
The riot police watched on but did not intervene and threats of more protests were pasted on nearby doors.
"I will not close my shop because it is not my fault. But at the same time if something was to happen to my shop I will leave Greece because I am not protected."
Ilias Panagiotaris, an MP for Golden Dawn, and a leading party figure in Athens, was unapologetic about his group's methods.
"Most nations, well, not the US or Australia, have a single nationality that defines its culture and Greece must return to this ideal," he said. "The Golden Dawn is a very well organised party that is intervening to support and help people. Without us in a country where two million of ten million people are illegal, there would be chaos."
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"I had to turn and point to my Greek children and my Greek wife and say, look I am Greek, we are Greek, if you want to kill us we cannot stop you but you are killing your own."
The riot police watched on but did not intervene and threats of more protests were pasted on nearby doors.
"I will not close my shop because it is not my fault. But at the same time if something was to happen to my shop I will leave Greece because I am not protected."
Ilias Panagiotaris, an MP for Golden Dawn, and a leading party figure in Athens, was unapologetic about his group's methods.
"Most nations, well, not the US or Australia, have a single nationality that defines its culture and Greece must return to this ideal," he said. "The Golden Dawn is a very well organised party that is intervening to support and help people. Without us in a country where two million of ten million people are illegal, there would be chaos."
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9651505/Golden-Dawn-takes-advantage-of-recession-ravaged-Greece.html
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