The Risks of Greece's Golden Dawn Clampdown

Three right-wing lawmakers in Athens were released from custody pending trial, in a move that raised concerns that Greece?s crackdown on the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party could backfire. Some 35 people associated with the political party Golden Dawn, which gained 18 MPs in Parliament last spring, were arrested on Sept. 28 in a crackdown sparked by the stabbing murder of an anti-racism rapper last month. 'This government is determined not to allow the heirs of the Nazis to poison our social life, to commit crimes, to terrorize and to undermine the foundations of the country that gave birth to democracy,' Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said in a brief televised address after the death of rapper Pavlos Fyssas.

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