Nikolaos Michaloliakos
Nikolaos Michaloliakos or Nikos Michaloliakos ( Greek Νικόλαος (Νίκος) Μιχαλολιάκος , born December 11, 1957 in Athens ) is the chairman of the neo-Nazi Greek party Chrysi Avgi .
Life
Michaloliakos joined the nationalist "August 4th Party" of Konstantinos Plevris, a Holocaust denier and anti-Semitic representative of the extreme right, at the age of 16 . He was also active in the Athens organization of EOKA-B . He studied mathematics at the University of Athens .
He was arrested for the first time in July 1974 during a demonstration outside the British Embassy in Athens against Britain's stance on the Turkish invasion of Cyprus .
He was arrested again for assaulting journalists in December 1976 at the funeral of Evangelos Mallios, a police officer who was killed by the terrorist organization on November 17 and who had tortured prisoners during the Greek military dictatorship . During his stay in Korydallos prison , he met the imprisoned leaders of the military junta . He did his military service with a paratrooper unit until he was arrested in 1978 for illegally possessing weapons and explosives and released from the army .
After his release, he founded the magazine "Chrysi Avgi" (Greek for "Golden Dawn"). In 1984 Michaloliakos joined the "National Political Union" (EPEN), which was founded on the initiative of the former dictator Georgios Papadopoulos ; this appointed him leader of the party's youth organization. In January 1985 he broke with the EPEN and founded the “Völkische National Movement Chrysi Avgi ”.
He is married to Eleni Zaroulia , who has also sat in Parliament for Chrysi Avgi since June 2012 and is a member of the European Commission for Equality and Non-Discrimination.
In June 2012, Michaloliakos' daughter was arrested at short notice, along with five other people. Among those arrested were Ilias Panagiotaros and Ioannis Vouldis , two Chrysi Avgi MPs. The arrest was based on suspicion of an attack on a 31-year-old Pakistani. All six arrested were released after a short time due to a lack of evidence.
Michaloliakos lives in Pefki, a suburb in the north of Athens.
After left-wing musician Pavlos Fyssas was stabbed to death by a supporter of Chrysi Avgi, Michaloliakos was arrested on September 28, 2013 on charges of forming a criminal organization . Unlike other members of the party who were arrested and later released on bail, Michaloliakos remained in custody. A police spokesman said that a hunting rifle, revolver and pistol had been found in Michaloliakos' house for which no gun licenses were available. Michaloliakos also owned a large portrait of Adolf Hitler .
Political career
Michaloliakos has been the leader of Chrysi Avgi since it was founded. Officially the party's “general secretary”, his supporters refer to himself as a “leader” ( Greek αρχηγός ). In national elections, the party had no notable success for 25 years and failed to pass the three percent hurdle .
In 2010 Michaloliakos was elected to the city council of the capital Athens , where he provoked with the Hitler salute.
In the parliamentary elections in May 2012 , however, the party profited from voters' annoyance with the established parties, from the rejection of austerity policies as a result of the Greek financial crisis and the recession, and from outrage over illegal immigration, which it fueled with its xenophobia. She received 6.97% and Michaloliakos was elected as a member of the Greek parliament with 20 other party members . When Michaloliakos appeared in front of the press after the election results were announced, a bodyguard asked the journalists to stand. Those who refused were yelled at and thrown out of the room. Michaloliakos announced: "Greek citizens need not be afraid of us, the only ones who should be afraid of us are traitors ." In another utterance, he stated that the party could leave parliament at any time and take to the streets: "Then you will see what 'stormtroopers' mean, what fighting means and what it means to sharpen the bayonets."
In the new parliamentary election in June 2012 , the party got 18 seats in parliament. The party was re-elected in 2015 with a slight decrease in the number of votes and Michaloliakos was a member of the Greek parliament until his party was not re-elected in 2019.
Others
According to an article in To Ethnos newspaper , Michaloliakos is co-owner of an hour hotel in Athens that also employs foreigners.
In a television interview broadcast by Mega TV on May 13, 2012, Michaloliakos denied the Holocaust :
"No, there were no ovens, that's a lie, I don't think so, and no gas chambers either ."
When asked another time if he believed in the Holocaust, he claimed that "the whole story was written by winners".
In an interview with the broadcaster Mega TV, Michaloliakos described Adolf Hitler as a "great personality of the 20th century".
When party functionaries of Chrysi Avgi showed the Hitler salute, which was not forbidden in Greece , Michaloliakos declared that it was an ancient Greek salute to honor the dawn and the god Apollo . On another occasion he claimed it was the greeting from the youth movement of the dictator Ioannis Metaxas , to which his party refers positively.
When the press spokesman for the Ilias Kasidiaris party attacked the two parliamentarians Liana Kanelli and Rena Dourou in June 2012 and hit one of them several times, Michaloliakos defended the action. “The women shouldn't complain. They wanted equality, ”he said on the Cypriot television station Sigma.
Michaloliakos replied to the announcement by the Conservative Minister of Public Order, Nikos Dendias , that he wanted to fight “ stormtroopers ” by shouting in front of hundreds of uniformed supporters: “Let them come! You are the storm troops of Chrysi Avgi! "
In October 2012 Michaloliakos showed the Hitler salute at a demonstration by young people. Meanwhile, he said, "We say hello sometimes, but our hands are clean."
Michaloliakos proposed in December 2012 to take action against the high level of illegal immigration in Greece with landmines in the border area.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e To Vima of September 11, 2005: Το κλούβιο «αβγό του φιδιού» (Greek)
- ↑ Profile Of A Greek Extremist: Nikolaos Michaloliakos greece.greekreporter.com of September 28, 2013
- ↑ Ελένη Ζαρούλια: Ποια είναι η βουλευτής-σύζυγος του Νίκου Μιχαλολιάκου Efimerida from May 13, 2012 (Greek)
- ↑ Το κλούβιο «αβγό του φιδιού» To Vima of September 11, 2005 (Greek)
- ↑ Golden Dawn MP Sits at Non-Discrimination Committee of Council of Europe keeptalkinggreece.com of October 1, 2012
- ↑ Ms. Eleni ZAROULIA ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Council of Europe; Retrieved October 6, 2012
- ↑ MPs From Greece's Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party Arrested for Racist Attack on Pakistani ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. loonwatch.com from June 5, 2012
- ↑ Greek neo-Nazi MPs attack Pakistanis ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. stern.de from June 2, 2012
- ↑ Greece takes action against neo-Nazis through stern.de of September 29, 2013
- ↑ Head of the neo-Nazi party arrested ( memento from October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de from September 28, 2013
- ^ Greek neo-Nazi chief remains in custody ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Tagesschau.de from October 3, 2013
- ↑ Leading Greek neo-Nazis remain in custody ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. swp.de from September 29, 2013
- ↑ Golden Dawn arrests: 'The government should have acted long ago' telegraph.co.uk of October 5, 2013
- ^ The methods of the Greek fascists: hypocritical help, brutal intimidation rp-online.de of May 10, 2012
- ↑ On Europe's border: Greece is a trap WOZ No. 36/2012 of September 6, 2012
- ↑ Golden Dawn vs the state ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. athensnews.gr dated August 31, 2012
- ↑ Συνιδιοκτήτης σε ροζ ξενοδοχείο ο Ν. Μιχαλολιάκος ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ethnos.gr of April 30, 2012 (Greek)
- ^ Greek neo-Nazi denies Holocaust Focus.de
- ↑ Original Greek text News.in.gr: «Όχι, δεν υπήρχαν φούρνοι, αυτό είναι ένα ψέμα, δεν το πιστεύων, ούτε θάλαμοι αερίων».
- ↑ Hard Times Lift Greece's Anti-Immigrant Fringe nytimes.com, April 12, 2012
- ^ Nazi party leader denies existence of gas chambers welt.de from May 15, 2012
- ↑ With Hitler salute and malice: Fascists in the Athens Parliament ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. N24.de from May 6, 2012
- ^ A guide to Greece's political parties Aljazeera from May 1, 2012
- ↑ Süddeutsche from June 11, 2012: "Greek neo-Nazi reports his victims"
- ↑ Athens News of August 28, 2012: "Golden Dawn threatens to deploy party 'stormtroopers'" ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Orthodox cleric receives threats following Golden Dawn comments ekathimerini.com of October 22, 2012
- ^ Nationalists rising in Greece examiner.com, December 12, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Michaloliakos, Nikolaos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Michaloliakos, Nikos; Μιχαλολιάκος, Νικόλαος; Μιχαλολιάκος, Νίκος |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens |