What Pavlos Fyssas' Murder Means for Greece

When the police arrived in Keratsini, Athens, towards midnight on 18 September, they found 'two people engaged in fighting.' One of them would later be identified as Pavlos Fyssas, the latest victim of the 'new' Greek fascists. Newspapers reported that when the police arrived there were over 20 neo-Nazis at the scene, so well-armed with sticks and clubs that the police felt they couldn?t intervene. One young policewoman, however, produced her gun and arrested Yiorgos Roupakias, the man who butchered Pavlos Fyssas. The people who committed this crime are not random hooligans. They roam the streets in motorcades, carrying clubs, sticks, knives and butterfly machetes. They sport black uniforms, designed to show rank, complete with black helmets and gloves and insignia.

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