Mihaloliakos appeared before investigating magistrates and a prosecutor on Wednesday night to respond to charges of founding and participating in a criminal organisation. He was arrested on Saturday alongside other party members as part of the government's efforts of rein in a party it says is a criminal gang.
The decision to jail the party chief is already being described by the foreign media as a boost for Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' efforts to clamp down on Golden Dawn after a self-proclaimed supporter fatally stabbed an anti-fascism rapper last month. However, those who follow the news in Greece on a daily basis know that Golden Dawn was the country's third most popular party until this tragic killing and it was feared that they would rise further, thus challenging the existing establishment-liked parties.
According to one report on defencenet, just before authorities made their final decision -to jail or release the GD leader- prosecutors wanted to listen to the deposition of G.Patelis, who is the leader of the local organization in Nikea -where the murder of Pavlos Fyssas occurred-, so that they could see if the calls that were made after the murder to Nikos Lagos and then on to GD leader could in some way tie together.
The key word here is "after" the murder and this is because it can safely be assumed that this was not a pre-meditated murder and/or planned, therefore this automatically crumbles the claims by the mainstream (corrupt) media that GD had planned an execution, as they state, and certainly it is something that will never hold up in a court of law. Besides, the calls that were made after the incident in Nikea were recorded at the party's central office and anyone in their right mind knows that when you call a political party you do not get connected to the party leader's office, but to a reception desk first! This was also stated by party spokesman Ilias Kassidiaris on Thursday morning in a brief statement to the press.
The Secretary General of GD maintained that the telephones and had been assigned to the party cadres. For this reason, and through his lawyers, Michaloliakos demanded that the prosecution proceed immediately with lifting of "substantial secrecy" on these particular phone calls and listen in on the recorded conversations. Authorities are now expected to follow through with this request, and if they do not do this, their case against the GD leader will also crumble.
According to case against the GD leader, "between 10:13 a.m., on September 18, 2013 (hours after the murder of Pavlos Fyssas) and up to 12:37 pm, there were a a number of incoming calls made. (If this is the data against the GD leader, then certainly it raises many doubts.)
Think about it. What relationship can phone calls that were made the day after the killing by the leader of GD's Nikea branch to the party headquarters have, when everybody who is anybody around the country was talking about this issue with one another? They obviously spoke about the issue, but this does not in anyway prove that there was an intent for this killing, nor does it consist legal ground for a conviction of suspected murder. Certainly when the prosecution lifts the confidentiality of these calls, we will see what words were exchanged after the murder and then and only then make our conclusions. Until then, everything that is said is here say and simple propaganda, and as we have said previously here on HellasFrappe cannot stand up in a court of law.
Of coruse try explaining this to the Greek media, which has already drawn its conclusions, and today is praising the justice system whereas on Wednesday it condemned the same lawmakers for releasing the other GD officials.
Basically, the media has been slamming down on GD and basing its case around a chain of command set out in what it claims to be GD's charter, but in his marathon-long deposition, Michaloliakos noted that this charter was purposely falsified to compliment the indictment against his party and was delivered to the Supreme Court so that they can build a case against his party and make it our to look like a criminal organization.
He thus argued that his persecution is political and not criminal.
References in Greek
http://www.defencenet.gr/defence/item/%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B
http://www.naftemporiki.gr/story/710381
http://olympia.gr/2013/10/03/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7-%CF%86%CF%85%CE
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