Security ramped up for Fyssas murder commemoration

A vigil and rally will beryllium held astatine a memorial to Pavlos Fyssas, erected astatine the determination where helium was stabbed to decease by a subordinate of Golden Dawn connected the nighttime of September 18, 2013. [InTime News]

Police are ramping up information successful and astir the larboard metropolis of Piraeus and different parts of Greece connected Thursday arsenic the 2013 execution of anti-fascist instrumentalist Pavlos Fyssas by a subordinate of Golden Dawn is being commemorated conscionable days aft the erstwhile main of the now-defunct neo-Nazi enactment was granted aboriginal merchandise from prison.

Events marking the fatal stabbing of the 34-year-old instrumentalist successful the mediate of a street successful the Piraeus suburb of Keratsini connected the nighttime of September 18, 2013, see a performance and gathering astatine the Lipasmata taste venue successful Drapetsona, a vigil and rally astatine the memorial erected for Fyssas astatine the determination where helium died successful the Piraeus suburb of Korydallos and different gatherings successful the Greek superior and different arts of the country.

Police will beryllium deployed to the country of the vigil, while respective streets astir the gatherings will beryllium closed to traffic starting astatine 2 p.m. The Korydallos and Maniatika metro stations will besides beryllium closed arsenic of 3.30 p.m. and not reopened until the constabulary springiness the all-clear.

Fyssas was stabbed to decease successful Keratsini by Giorgos Roupakias, a self-proclaimed subordinate of Golden Dawn, whose enactment and respective progressive figures were convicted successful 2020 of a slew of superior offenses, including forming a transgression enactment that carried retired violent attacks against migrants and governmental opponents.

The party’s 67-year-old erstwhile leader, self-proclaimed neo-Nazi Nikos Michaloliakos, was granted conditional merchandise connected wellness grounds past week aft serving 5 years of his 13-year sentence.

The determination to fto him service the remainder of his situation condemnation astatine location has sparked outrage among victims of Golden Dawn’s run of terror and intimidation during Greece’s economical crisis, among anti-fascist groups and crossed overmuch of the governmental spectrum.