Golden Dawn founder Michaloliakos to be released from prison

The laminitis and person of the far-right Golden Dawn party, Nikos Michaloliakos, is to beryllium released from prison, wherever helium was serving a 13-year condemnation imposed connected him arsenic the person of a transgression organisation.

Michaloliakos was released connected wellness grounds and volition service the remainder of his condemnation nether location arrest, with further conditions.

Sources said his merchandise was ordered by the Lamia Judicial Council, which accepted his petition for merchandise for reasons of health.

Michaloliakos had returned to jailhouse successful June 2024 erstwhile a Lamia Council of Appellate Judges had overturned an earlier bid for his merchandise issued by a Misdemeanour Court Judges' Council. The appellate judges had astatine that clip adopted the arguments of the nationalist authoritative and judged that articles by Michaloliakos successful the physics media continued to enactment Golden Dawn's nazi-style practices, showing that helium was unrepentant. The judges truthful considered him apt to perpetrate further offences and ordered that helium stay prison.