The Golden Dawn trial is still ongoing, with no sign of reaching an end soon, however, the Nazi party did lose one significant trial in Patras.
Setting a legal precedent, the court acquitted the city’s mayor, Kostas Peletidis, for refusing Golden Dawn a permit to use a public space for a gathering, as well as denying the party’s request to deliver the names of migrant children enrolled in public schools.
The party responded to the mayor’s stance with legal prosecution. Soon after, a massive movement to support Peletidis was created, with a petition signed by thousands of Patras citizens. In his testimony, the mayor of Patras (who ran in the elections as an outsider supported by the Communist Party) made reference to the Greek people’s history against Nazism which is at the core of the Golden Dawn ideology.
“These people are requesting for Greek children to be separated from and alien, while still in nursery,” said Peletidis in court.
“Is there such a thing as an alien child?”