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Monday, September 30, 2013

?Blood and Honour?: The Family Behind Golden Dawn

ATHENS (AFP) ? A dictator?s disciple and a woman who describes migrants as ?sub-human? are the power couple behind Greece?s Golden Dawn, the neo-fascist party facing a police crackdown after the murder of an anti-fascist musician. Party leader Nikos Michaloliakos, 56, arrested Sept. 28, is a disgraced former officer cadet and devotee of Greek dictator George Papadopoulos, with whom he spent time in prison in the late 1970s for an assault and bombing attack. His wife Eleni Zaroulia, who joined her husband in Parliament in June 2012, turned heads when she appeared in the chamber wearing a ring in the shape of the Iron Cross, the military decoration of Nazi Germany?s armed forces.

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