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A Golden Dawn rally in 2013. Anti-fascist hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas was murdered in 2013 by a party member (Photo: alba.christiansen)

Court verdict sees sun set on Greece's Golden Dawn

After the biggest trial of neo-Nazis since some of the Third Reich were convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg in 1945, the overwhelming guilty verdicts on 68 members and leaders of the Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party this week has sent a clear message to far-right groups in the EU and beyond - many of whom originally modelled themselves on the Greek neo-Nazi movement - that political street violence is not without its legal consequences.

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A Golden Dawn rally in 2013. Anti-fascist hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas was murdered in 2013 by a party member (Photo: alba.christiansen)

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Jonathan Mitchell is a British freelance journalist based in Athens, Greece, who writes for a wide variety of European and UK newspapers and websites.

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