Golden Dawn wire tapped as Greece reels from violent protests
The Greek intelligence service have placed wire taps inside the communications of Golden Dawn - the far-Right political party suspected of having links to the murder of a Left wing rapper, it has been claimed.
A police officer runs away from a Molotov cocktail as clashes continue in Athens Wednesday night Photo: ARIS MESSINIS/AFP
5:10PM BST 26 Sep 2013
In a turbulent 24 hours for Greece,
anti-fascist protests became violent, an army website demanded the
resignation of the government, and an official admitted they planted wire
taps in the communications of a neo-Nazi political party.
The intelligence service official told the AFP news agency that the wire taps
on Golden Dawn were authorised to prove alleged complicity in crimes
following the murder of an anti-fascist rapper. Pavlos Fyssas, a 34-year-old
hip hop artist, was fatally stabbed in an Athens commuter town on September
17 in an apparent ambush. The group has denied it had anything to do with
the killing, but he was stabbed to death by a self-proclaimed supporter.
“The intelligence service has the authority to conduct wiretaps for reasons of
national safety, provided there is judicial approval,” the source said.
“Both random and targeted wiretaps have been carried out for quite some
time.”
The murder of Mr Fyssas caused outrage across Greece.
On Wednesday at least 10,000 people demonstrated in Athens in an anti-fascist
protest organised by unions and political parties.
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