Be afraid, exultant Greek neo-Nazis warn rivals

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Worrying stuff

SchoolsNightmare I am very worried about the prospect of further elections. What do they expect to happen? In the time until the second lot of elections, far right Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn, neo-Nazi types) will campaign hard, and they didn't sell themselves as Neo-Nazis for this time round, they presented themselves as patriots saving the country.

This intervening time (assuming there will be further elections) gives them more time to be photographed giving poor Greek families food parcels while claiming that Asian immigrants have been taking the food from the mouths of starving Greek children, etc (they have already been doing this). They have discovered how to win more popular appeal, and they milk their opportunities for all they are worth.

It's very worrying.

incidentally, there are already mines along the Greek-Turkish border in Evros. They were supposed to have got rid of them, but they haven't all gone yet. It's terrible to think of how many people could be killed there before they are all gone. :(

Scary stuff!

I have often seen illegal immigrants, either tramping along the motorway or crowding at the railway station. Sometimes there are very young children with them. It's terrible to think that those children could be falling victim to those landmines :(

More Golden Dawn rhetoric about "cleaning" Greece of foreigners :(. What are they planning to do? Round people up and deport or imprison them?

Spot on, SchoolsNightmare, especially regarding the way they campaign. I can understand why they appeal to a lot of people who would never have considered them in the past.

Very frightening for me, a legal immigrant, legal, EU, but an immigrant nonetheless, to see the rise of these people!

alex, haven't you returned to England or are you still in Greece?

I was in Athens about 2 years ago and was appalled at what I saw there - drug addicts lying on mattresses on the pavement with open festering wounds as a result of drug use. I saw police transit vans with mobile police canteens parked in side streets.

I did not feel at all safe and only ventured out alone once. A local I met who spoke very good English advised me to stay in the busy areas. I did and still I was accosted by an addict who tried to grab me by the shoulder. Very frightening.

That was 2 years ago before 'austerity' - goodness knows what the place is like now.

I feel that it will be awful for the Greeks if the economy is allowed to collapse.
The Greeks had a civil war from 1941-1946. Many old scores are yet to be settled and if the country has anarchy on the streets it will not be good. Particularly as you have groups like 'Golden Dawn' around.