Greek Police Say 10 Officers Have Links to Golden Dawn
By NIKI KITSANTONIS
ATHENS — The Greek police on Wednesday announced the findings of an
internal investigation into suspected links between the force and the
neo-fascist Golden Dawn party, which is the focus of a criminal
investigation, saying that 10 officers had been linked to the party but
that no signs of “organized cells” affiliated with the group had been
discovered.
The inquiry began last month,
after the killing of an anti-fascist singer by a self-professed
supporter of Golden Dawn. The killing was the culmination of a string of
assaults attributed to members or supporters of the fiercely
anti-immigrant party, which has 18 seats in Greece’s 300-member
Parliament. Out of 319 police officers questioned, 15 were arrested on
various charges, including illegal weapons possession and trading in
contraband goods, and of those, 10 were found to have “direct or
indirect involvement with the criminal activities of Golden Dawn,”
according to the head of the police’s internal affairs unit, Panagiotis
Stathis.
The investigation found no “organized cells, factions or
unconstitutional hubs” but highlighted “inadequate supervision” within
the force, he added at a news conference. The 15 officers who were
arrested were suspended pending the outcome of their cases, a police
spokesman said.
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