Golden Dawn remains defiant amid Greek revulsion at musician's murder
Thousands of Greeks have taken to the streets to denounce the murder of a rap musician stabbed to death by a member of the far-right Golden Dawn as a government inquiry presented evidence of the widespread infiltration of security forces by the party.
The ultra-nationalist group has denied any involvement in the killing of Pavlos Fyssas and the party's leader Nikos Michaloliakos, warned that what he described as mud-slinging and slander "would open the gates of hell".
The organisation, whose emblem resembles the Swastika, said the media was behind a dirty war to annihilate it and singled out the Guardian – "the newspaper of capitalists in the City" – for inciting violence against the group. "[All of which] proves, exactly, the role of certain embassies in the entire operation to dismantle [Golden Dawn]," it said.
The statement was posted on the party's website after a survey by the polling company Alco showed support for the group dropping by 4 percentage points, from 10.8%, in the wake of the fatal stabbing. The overwhelming majority of respondents blamed Golden Dawn, whose meteoric rise on the back of economic discontent has made it Greece's third-largest party, for the escalating violence.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/golden-dawn-pavlos-fyssas-murder
