The Athens Court of Appeals on Wednesday delivered a guilty verdict for seven members of far-right Golden Dawn’s leadership, finding that they had run Golden Dawn as a criminal organization, ANA reports.
Out of the total of 65 individuals on trial, 50 were found guilty of forming and running a criminal organization. These included the leader of Golden Dawn Nikos Michaloliakos and six former Golden Dawn MPs: Christos Pappas, Artemis Matthaiopoulos, Ilias Panagiotaros, Ilias Kasidiaris, Yiannis Lagos, and Giorgos Germenis.
The other former MPs on trial, members of Golden Dawn’s political council as well as the heads of two local chapters (Giorgos Patelis and Anastasios Pantazis) were found guilty of joining and participating in a criminal organization.
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