Guardian
June 8, 2012
After systematic attacks towards minority groups and dissidents, the denial of Nazi concentration camps' gas chambers and a constant disregard for some of democracy's most fundamental values, Greece's Golden Dawn party can now add assaults on rival politicians to its list of crimes.
Greek, international and social media were flooded on Thursday with stories and comments about the neo-Nazi party representative's attack on two female candidates of the radical left Syriza party and the country's communist party, KKE.
During a morning television show on Greece's flagship broadcasting channel ANT1, Ilias Kasidiaris, who was attending as Golden Dawn's spokesman, ran out of words. Syriza's candidate MP Rena Dourou, commenting on his charged speech, said that "beyond the crisis in society, this is a crisis of democracy" and that Golden Dawn "will take the country back 500 years". Kasidiaris then proved her point by throwing a glass of water in her face.
His temper was clearly rising from the moment she mentioned he is due in court on 11 June for his alleged involvement in an armed robbery where a student was stabbed in 2007. For a man who spends so much time blaming others – the people his party attacks – he showed a remarkable inability to defend himself.
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