Charges Golden Dawn Leaders Ordered Murder

ATHENS - Leaders of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn assumed they had police protection. Now some of them are due to be charged with organized crime, accused of murder, racist attacks and possession of weapons. One word leaps out at you from the seven-page Greek indictment document against Golden Dawn. It is 'Fuhrerprinzip' - the leader principle, spelled out in Roman type. Since Sept. 28, Greek anti-terror police have arrested six of the far-right party's MPs and 16 activists, who they will charge on Oct. 1, collectively, with organized crime. Key to the prosecution is the argument that the party's leaders controlled a military-style cell structure, that they trained attack groups, and that it was the political leadership - the MPs themselves - who controlled the apparatus of violence.

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