Mosque Contract Set, Golden Dawn Vows Protests

ATHENS - The awarding of a contract to construct a state-paid official mosque for the city's Muslims has led the ultra-right extremist Golden Dawn party to promise a mass protest against its building. Golden Dawn, whose leaders are in jail pending trial on charges of a running a criminal gang, said the contract was an 'unprecedented provocation' and that it would use its position ?within Parliament and mainly through mass, powerful demonstrations? to prevent the mosque being built. They were joined in their opposition to the mosque by the right-wing Independent Greeks party which has a marginal group in the Parliament, where Golden Dawn has 18 lawmakers, although six of them were arrested after the killing of an anti-fascist for which one of its members was arrested.

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