ATHENS. The Greek police have arrested the former vice president of Golden Dawn, Christos Pappas, a fugitive since last October when the maxi trial of the Greek neo-Nazi formation ended. According to reports from public television ERT, Pappas was arrested in an apartment in Athens. Together with the leader of the Golden Dawn, Nikos Michaloliakos, Pappas, a former member of the Greek Parliament, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for “setting up a criminal organization”.
Five other leaders of the xenophobic far-right formation, born in 1993 but which had an exploit after the economic crisis of 2008, becoming the third party in the 2015 elections, were sentenced to sentences between 10 and 13 years. The militant who stabbed the leftist rapper Pavlos Fyssas to death in 2013 was sentenced to life in prison. The investigation that led to the maxi trial, which lasted more than five years and which ended with over 50 convictions, started with the investigation of this murder.