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alp227

(32,054 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 03:57 PM Oct 2020

Golden Dawn's Pappas on the run as colleagues start jail terms

Source: BBC

One of the leaders of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party has refused to turn himself in, on the day that dozens of colleagues began jail terms.

Christos Pappas, 58, defied the court order and reports said Greek police were searching for him.

Earlier this month, the entire leadership of Golden Dawn was convicted of running a criminal organisation.

Party leader Nikos Michaloliakos and senior colleagues were given 13 years in jail, after a five-year trial.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54657540

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Golden Dawn's Pappas on the run as colleagues start jail terms (Original Post) alp227 Oct 2020 OP
An awful human being. Kid Berwyn Oct 2020 #1
Hope they catch him burrowowl Oct 2020 #2
What a disgusting man... ck4829 Oct 2020 #3

Kid Berwyn

(14,964 posts)
1. An awful human being.
Sat Oct 24, 2020, 01:46 PM
Oct 2020

...Pappas, the son of a military officer and a close associate to former dictator Georgios Papadopoulos, was allegedly recorded on tape teaching a group of children to chant “Heil Hitler.”

Source: https://www.counterextremism.com/extremists/christos-pappas

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