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Neo-Nazi MP Slugs Twelve-Year Old Girl
Golden Dawn MP 'swung at mayor of Athens but hit 12-year-old girl instead'
Member of parliament for Greek extreme-right party also accused of trying to pull out gun during incident at charity event
Associated Press in Athens
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 May 2013 13.40 EDT
[font color=darkgray]Photograph: Yannis Kemmos/AP
Police confront Golden Dawn party members at a food giveaway
for 'Greek citizens only' in Athens – denounced by the mayor as
a 'soup kitchen of hatred'. [/font]
A member of parliament from Greece's extreme-right Golden Dawn party allegedly tried to punch the mayor of Athens on Thursday, swinging at him but reportedly missing and hitting a 12-year-old girl instead.
The confrontation came hours after police used pepper spray to prevent the nationalist party from distributing free food to Greek citizens only in the city's main Syntagma Square in defiance of a municipal ban the mayor had vowed to uphold.
Once a marginal group, Golden Dawn saw a meteoric rise in the polls in recent years, becoming the third most popular party as the country slid further into financial crisis and unemployment rocketed. Its members have been repeatedly accused of involvement in violent attacks against immigrants and others.
"The only thing these people know is the language of violence," said the mayor, Giorgos Kaminis, after the incident, in which he said MP Giorgos Germenis also tried to pull out a gun before being restrained by the mayor's bodyguards.
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Member of parliament for Greek extreme-right party also accused of trying to pull out gun during incident at charity event
Associated Press in Athens
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 May 2013 13.40 EDT
[font color=darkgray]Photograph: Yannis Kemmos/AP
Police confront Golden Dawn party members at a food giveaway
for 'Greek citizens only' in Athens – denounced by the mayor as
a 'soup kitchen of hatred'. [/font]
A member of parliament from Greece's extreme-right Golden Dawn party allegedly tried to punch the mayor of Athens on Thursday, swinging at him but reportedly missing and hitting a 12-year-old girl instead.
The confrontation came hours after police used pepper spray to prevent the nationalist party from distributing free food to Greek citizens only in the city's main Syntagma Square in defiance of a municipal ban the mayor had vowed to uphold.
Once a marginal group, Golden Dawn saw a meteoric rise in the polls in recent years, becoming the third most popular party as the country slid further into financial crisis and unemployment rocketed. Its members have been repeatedly accused of involvement in violent attacks against immigrants and others.
"The only thing these people know is the language of violence," said the mayor, Giorgos Kaminis, after the incident, in which he said MP Giorgos Germenis also tried to pull out a gun before being restrained by the mayor's bodyguards.
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- So it seems that once a planet gets Nazis, they're as hard to get rid of as roaches......
Signs of the Apocalypse:
When police suddenly stormed his home last week, Curtis said an investigator asked him about ricin, and Curtis said he responded, "Well, I don't eat rice, and I don't have any rice in the house." link
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