Greeks fight to stop ultra-right festival
Ultra-right parties from across Europe have caused uproar in Greece after announcing plans to stage a festival in a Peloponnesian town in the autumn.
The three-day event, organised by some of the continent’s leading neo-Nazi groups and billed officially as a camping trip to “Hellas, land of the heroes”, is intended to become a recruiting ground for young people.
“This unique gathering will combine comradeship with sport activities by the sea and, most importantly, an open congress with speeches on the descent of our national identity,” the extremists say on their website.
“Turkey, out of Europe” is expected to be the main slogan of the September 16-18 meeting.
Germany’s National Democratic party (NDP), Italy’s Forza Nuova, Spain’s La Falange, Romania’s Noua Dreapta (the New Right) and Greece’s Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) have all pooled resources for the youth gathering. Old-guard fascists, including Udo Voigt, who heads the NDP, and Roberto Fiore of Forza Nuova plan to address the crowd.
Full: guardian.co.uk
Gosh these guys are irritating…when are the they going to get with this 21st century thing? You know, the iron fist in the velvet glove, the kinder gentler machine-gun hand…
July 5th, 2005 at 9:48 am
the funny(if you can see it in that way) is that sometimes these type of things are financed by the ones who want to make themselves look kinder and gentler in the face of blatancy.