With a spike in attacks on immigrants in Greece being blamed on Golden Dawn, Twitter has also suspended the account of the ultra-extremists said to have neo-Nazi ideologies, clamping down on white supremacist groups.
Golden Dawn, all of whose 16 Members of Parliament and dozens of members are in the third year of a trial on charges of running a criminal gang, blasted the suspension, saying it was led by “the entangled news media and the corrupt political power which is controlled by the new world order.”
“After Facebook of [Mark] Zuckerberg, after Instagram and all the corrupt media, it was Twitter’s turn to target the party in a vulgar manner,” the group said in a slap at its perceived enemies and opponents.
The San Francisco company did not say if the move was a result of its new policy to weed out hate groups and supremacists using Twitter to go on the verbal attack.
Twitter may occasionally suspend an account if it has been reported to be violating its rules surrounding abuse.
That came the same time as reports of attacks against migrant workers, and Pakistanis especially, in the Piraeus suburbs of Renti and Nikaia have soared since Christmas, a rights group warned, saying they have all the trademarks of Golden Dawn’s so-called “assault divisions.”
According to the Movement Against Racism and the Fascist Threat (KEERFA) more than 30 houses tenanted by migrants have been attacked in less than a month in those two areas by black-hooded assailants throwing stones, sticks, bottles and even bitter oranges at the houses, breaking windows and frightening their tenants.
“Despite complaints filed by the migrants with police, the group continues to be active in the neighborhood,” KEERFA said, according to Kathimerini.
“It looks a lot like new Golden Dawn assault divisions are being trained,” the activist group’s coordinator Petros Constantinou told the paper, referring to teams allegedly formed to terrorize migrants on reported orders of the group’s leaders. Golden Dawn has denied all charges.
“It is characteristic that the attacks happen somewhat steadily, three times a week,” Constantinou said.
“This is the area… where Golden Dawn’s attacks started, long before the terrorism of black-clad squads became more prevalent, culminating with Pavlos Fyssas’s murder,” he said, referring to the stabbing of an anti-Fascist rapper in nearby Keratsini in September 2013.
“This is what is causing so much concern; that these attacks may be in preparation for something bigger,” said Constantinou.
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