Far-right lawmaker on trial over assault on fellow-MP

Constantinos Floros. [InTime News]

A far-right lawmaker went connected trial successful Athens Thursday for allegedly assaulting and punching different lawmaker from a small right-wing populist enactment successful Parliament astir two years ago.

Constantinos Floros, a now-independent MP who was elected with the Spartans party, faces transgression charges for assaulting a lawmaker during the execution of their duties. The April 24, 2024 incidental took spot successful the location of Parliament conscionable extracurricular the league hall.

Lawmaker Vassilis Grammenos, from the Greek Solution party, told the tribunal Thursday that Floros allegedly threatened him, then grabbed him by the pharynx and punched him.

“I felt daze and shame that something of the ταξινόμηση could beryllium happening” successful Parliament, helium said. “All I tin retrieve is the humor moving down my nose.”

Other lawmakers testified arsenic witnesses. The trial will proceed connected March 30.

Floros was arrested aft the alleged onslaught and acceptable escaped connected information that helium keeps a region of astatine slightest 50 meters from Grammenos astatine each times.