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κατηγορηθεί ότι υποκίνησε την έκρηξη επιθέσεων ξενοφοβικής βίας σε βάρος
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ενημέρωση της ομογένειας σχετικά με θέματα εθνικού ενδιαφέροντος".
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NEO-NAZIS OPEN LOCAL BRANCH
Fringe group in Melbourne’s Greek community
A SPLINTER group in the Melbourne Greek community has been condemned for launching a local branch of the extreme rightwing Golden Dawn party, which has been accused in Greece of sparking xenophobic violence by espousing neo-Nazi and antiimmigration policies.
The mission to use the cover of the internet to create a nationalistic
political force among one of the world’s largest Greek communities
outside Athens has been savaged by Australia’s Jewish and Greek
communities.
The Golden Dawn Melbourne Facebook page has attracted more than 2500
followers — with many friends from overseas — and the proponents are
planning to organise regular meetings to discuss nationalistic policies
and widen appeal for a political party that has been condemned
worldwide.
The Facebook page lists the group’s favourite quote as: ‘‘Northern
Greece, Cyprus, Macedonia, the battle continues as in Australia blood
and honour, Golden Dawn.’’
The Australian backers of the ultra-nationalist party do not appear to
have put their names to the project and did not respond to requests for
comment yesterday.
The emergence of the party’s Australian branch comes after a small group
of protesters tried to disrupt Greek National Day celebrations in
Melbourne in March, wearing clothes promoting Golden Dawn. Proponents
are claiming to be behind the group’s first chapter outside Greece.
The Australian/ israel & Jewish Affairs Council was alerted to the
Melbourne group from Greece and has warned that its extremist agenda
could not be tolerated.
AIJAC community affairs director Jeremy Jones said: ‘‘Melbourne is
obviously a place where the people are trying to build an outside base.
It’s just repulsive.’’
The editor of Melbourne’s Neos Kosmos newspaper, Kostas Nikolopoulos, said a ‘‘handful of individuals’’ were behind the push and they were trying to ‘‘drug’’ the community: ‘‘They live on the fringe and they act on the fringe.’’
Victorian Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship Nicholas Kotsiras said only a small number of ‘‘ignorant’’ and ‘‘ill-informed’’ people were involved. ‘‘Australia has no room for this type of intolerance and the vast majority of Victorians of Greek descent — and indeed Greeks in Greece — find the views of Golden Dawn abhorrent.’’
The Facebook site carries the controversial Golden Dawn logo, which appears to be modelled on the swastika, although the party in Greece denies this connection to World War II fascism.
On the back of the economic meltdown, Golden Dawn gained representation in the Greek parliament this year, winning about 7 per cent of the vote and 18 seats in the 300-member parliament.
Golden Dawn Greek spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris recently described the country’s immigration challenges as due to an agenda to populate the country with ‘‘subhumans’’ and called for landmines as part of border protection.
The group’s Melbourne profile states: ‘‘Our aims are (to) get articles from Greece and translating (sic) them in English, allowing the Hellenic diaspora to understand the political and (sic) destruction being caused to Mother Hellas.’’
The editor of Melbourne’s Neos Kosmos newspaper, Kostas Nikolopoulos, said a ‘‘handful of individuals’’ were behind the push and they were trying to ‘‘drug’’ the community: ‘‘They live on the fringe and they act on the fringe.’’
Victorian Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship Nicholas Kotsiras said only a small number of ‘‘ignorant’’ and ‘‘ill-informed’’ people were involved. ‘‘Australia has no room for this type of intolerance and the vast majority of Victorians of Greek descent — and indeed Greeks in Greece — find the views of Golden Dawn abhorrent.’’
The Facebook site carries the controversial Golden Dawn logo, which appears to be modelled on the swastika, although the party in Greece denies this connection to World War II fascism.
On the back of the economic meltdown, Golden Dawn gained representation in the Greek parliament this year, winning about 7 per cent of the vote and 18 seats in the 300-member parliament.
Golden Dawn Greek spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris recently described the country’s immigration challenges as due to an agenda to populate the country with ‘‘subhumans’’ and called for landmines as part of border protection.
The group’s Melbourne profile states: ‘‘Our aims are (to) get articles from Greece and translating (sic) them in English, allowing the Hellenic diaspora to understand the political and (sic) destruction being caused to Mother Hellas.’’
