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In a statement made to judges investigating the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas by a Golden Dawn activist, the leader of the neo-Nazi party, Nikos Mihaloliakos, declared that he was asleep on the night in question, even though transcripts of telephone calls between party members appear to show that he was directly linked to the killing.
“I went to bed early on the night of the murder and I woke up at 1pm. I don’t know anything,” pleaded Mihaloliakos, who attempted to avoid prison by saying that he had spoken to no one on the day in question. He also claimed that he did not know Golden Dawn’s leader in the Piraeus neighbourhood, where the murder took place, even though he was a member of the party’s local section.
Now waning in the polls, support for Golden Dawn has declined by six points. “Perhaps it is the beginning of the end” for the party, remarks Ta Nea.
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