Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party is increasingly assuming the role of law enforcement officers on the streets of the bankrupt country, with mounting evidence that Athenians are being openly directed by police to seek help from the neo-Nazi group, analysts, activists and lawyers say.
In return, a growing number of Greek crime victims have come to see the party, whose symbol bears an uncanny resemblance to the swastika, as a “protector”.
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Greek police send crime victims to neo-Nazi ‘protectors’ Helena Smith | The Guardian (UK) This is how it begins, if history is any guide. Soft fascism becoming hard fascism?