Kasidiaris leaves prison on seven-day leave

Ilias Kasidiaris received the right to prison leave for 7 dayssince his request for this was granted by the Domokos prison, where he is being held.

This deadline expires October 22. In addition, during this period, Kasidiaris must visit the police station of the area where he has declared his residence. According to reports, Kasidiaris was picked up from Domoku prison by his father today.

Ilias Kasidiaris (Piraeus, November 29, 1980) – Greek politician, founder of the National Party of Greeks (Έλληνες). In the past, he was a press secretary and member of parliament for Golden Dawn, but in reality second person in the party. Later he became the founder of the National Party of Greeks.

For his activities in the Golden Dawn, he was sentenced to 13 years and 6 months imprisonment for leading a criminal organization.

Since 2001, he has written articles in publications “Golden Dawn”and from 2012 to 2019 was a member of the Greek Parliament as a party member. As part of his XA activities, he used Nazi symbols and flags, praised the Nazis and expressed neo-Nazi positions, and had tattoos of Nazi symbols on his body.

In May 2011, he was one of the HA members who organized a pogrom against immigrants in the center of Athens. During a television show before the June 2012 elections, he criticized the KKE candidate Liana Canelli after she lashed out at the SYRIZA candidate.

After the murder Pavlos Fissa Giorgos Roupakias in September 2013, he was arrested along with other Golden Dawn members on charges of participation in a criminal organization, but was released under restrictive conditions.

He was detained in July 2014 but was released a year later. In October 2020, a three-member Court of Criminal Appeal found him guilty of leading a criminal organization and sentenced him to 13 years and 6 months in prison. He has been serving his sentence since October 2020 and is currently being held in the Domokos maximum security prison.

In May 2020, he left Golden Dawn and announced the creation of the nationalist Greeks for the Motherland party in a YouTube video. The reason for his departure was that Nikos Michaloliakos rejected his proposal to change the ideological structure and name of the Golden Dawn, and to accept the leadership of the party by Kasidiaris himself.

In the 2023 municipal elections he was candidate for mayor of Athens from the party “Free Athenians” (Ελεύθεροι Αθηναίοι) and was elected councilor. He was removed from his position as city councilor the same day he took the oath of office.

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