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Since december the twenty fifth more than thirty homes of migrant laborers have been the target of violence in the greek city of us those behind the attacks are believed to be members of the neo fascist Political Party golden dawn the group has grown in popularity over the years thanks to their ideas rhetoric and their ability to use the national resentment over greeces financial crisis and twenty sixteen the government established an official office for complaints of fascism and violence but activists say theres been a little help so here to help us talk about this constantino hes an author and city counselor and the National Coordinator of kerflop thats an antifascist organization dedicated to fighting racism you know hes the president of the greek forum on refugees. A human rights lawyer assistant coordinator at the racist Violence Recording Network out in cyprus and told us us hes an associate professor of Political Science at the university of cypress its also comedy working on a book about the rise of golden dawn its good to see you everybody wish it was under better circumstances i want to show you a picture audience and guests as well this. Ashfaq mahmoud he was one of two migrant laborers he was attacked and this was back at the end of last year it was the end of last year were going to a little bit closer so you can see. Some of his wounds and another attack here you knew so when you see this when you see these attacks can you relate this is resonate with you is this part of what youre trying to preventing greece. So when they see this picture of. A file of. Tens of picture of this like this that i may simply have witnessed and they have. Shown to. Me my children also have been with teams of. Russian attacks in my office. So i want to exclude the attacks itself which is not the big issue for the big issue especially for me i was there witnessing recruiting and also. Rejecting that and also taking your to the food to the big issue was also the reactions of those who it is for example when i was attacked when the police came when i referred to the closest patients when i started and when they showed that i want to make a complete reaction of the police and their facilities that was the shocking for me that the police went in front of the Police Station and said if you want to make a complaint i will put you in the Detention Center for three nights it was the shopping point for me that i was the president of organization a new the land which i have documents. For housing ten thousand sort of refugees and migrants that they didnt have documented in the language and nothing nothing so you can imagine what does it mean. Rashes and violence on that time in two thousand and Eleven Eleven ten eleven. Twelve. Thirteen and fourteen like so petra you know what you know is talking about their detailing there is perhaps a wider perception an attitude towards attacks like these and were seeing that online as well what that wider perception looks like aljazeera english its out this tweet its been happening at least three times per week as the anti migrant attack surging in paris and we got this response to that tweet nick says greeks dont have the basic needs to survive do you think that we care about them he goes on to say im a young nineteen year old greek unemployment is that fifty percent for the. People and i dont have a future im always anxious about how im going to survive when i hear refugees complaining about their basic needs im really sorry but i dont care about them i cant explain it any better than that petros can you talk to us about some of the attitudes that are still similar to nixon perhaps similar to the Police Officers that eunice was talking about. Agreeably the actions of just mission before its a tiny minority in this country when the in two thousand and sixteen more than one million if you just came in greece. From the eyes and eighty five percent of the population was supporting the fujis in fifty five percent of the population just gave something at the open house give support with clothes and. The movement here in greece really fought for opening the border and giving human conditions for. Housing or all of this to people of course in greece because when we saw than the faces of the refugees who are caught the situation sometimes is much worse in greece we have met this at the met theres hope for august recess and musician shows that look man then you want to stand by squads of god been done in greece grace just comes from above comes from the government but have also and youre not department that have organized or these attacks a lot of attacks that were all. Organized for guests appear before i would say from two thousand and ten to two thousand and fifteen but the data. Are less precise wasnt mad and the police and the government look to a crackdown against and youre not just hundreds and more than one thousand people to the west bank they were caught up at about or be subtypes they fell or much too sometimes and not two of the hundreds in the house and the. Most of the tax increase they were related with then youre not been done they are not on trial yet or. That period in two thousand and thirteen the whole program into group and that in prison because of the method of problem space. Yes and now we are motor. There. Are. Some not so recent numbers and for hundreds of attacks against my guess and if you just what is important in greece we cant be near ninety out the the organizing for or against or these attacks the police was comedy acts and thats part of the policeman they were members of god then gone into account in their actions so your new stand before. You really got going dont park in august was type you. Were thinking that they have immunity actions saying no because ok let me just let me just bring in antagonistic antennas youre working right now in a book about golden dawn so the court cases people being put into prison does that mean that golden door now is shrinking that the efforts to spread that philosophy through great testing ngs. Well i think what is really alarming is electorally it hasnt really gone down that much since the trial has started or since the arrests of two thousand and thirteen after the murders so its now the third Biggest Party greece. Youve got Something Like seven percent and its pulling slightly higher organizationally it has been in decline i would say since two thousand and thirteen so local branches. A number of them have shut down its very difficult for the party to be out in the streets in part because of the anti fascist mobilization that has been taking place across a number of cities primarily large urban centers so i think this attacks recent attacks in three areas are very alarming and to some extent they are surprising because. His organization is largely in decline so. One would think that. This wouldnt be happening on the other hand weve seen this happen before weve seen it happen in two thousand and twelve in two thousand and thirteen very similar attacks by people who are associated with the golden dawn and theyre now facing trial for crimes or nearly killing or killing people so on the one hand its not surprising weve seen it before or the other hand this organization at least in terms of its infrastructure is seems to be in decline so it is a bit surprising that we see this it through us at this at this moment so i dont as i hear you there and of course you are writing a book on this so i will defer to you as the expert here on whether or not theyre declining but there is a sentiment online thats afraid that theyre not so it have a listen to this video comment this is from mary shes a researcher who is also researching golden dawn and this is what she told the stream support for bold on increase is very small and has declined since twenty twelve rather than grown they now hold sixteen out of three hundred however it is significant that a disproportionate number of greek police seem to support the us that could be provided as male protection for don inspired by ants theres some evidence that this is the case and true the impact of gold on might be greater than what we think. So shipments and they are declining what she brings up a point that we heard petro springs and eunice bring up about the police that relates to something in this tweet this is from mariano who says what seems more dangerous to me is not golden dawn societal influence as its clear where they represent and where they come from what concerns me the most is the way the refugee crisis is used by other parties and the socalled democratic spectrum she goes on to say take for example the fact that popular high ranking in peace of the Main Opposition Party in greece share similar attitudes towards refugees with golden dawn their rhetoric will have a much more negative impact than golden dawn and the rhetoric will shape peoples attitudes tina what do you make of that this is wider than just say golden dawn. So it. Made out something to what has been said before yes i mean their acts have been clearly decreased since the persecution of going under the little members and thats why i tell you the outcome of this trial is so important for the because they were meant of group of islands but we have also do do do do we say do you know that i mean that dollar i wasnt joining in previous years also you know not only the head you know this has. Been great but also they theyve got the group just like the media has with this violence so in its modern us theyre going to said before are we having no you know small cities we have this groups you know that we have not backed by groups on my land on smaller cities because they havent we had a slight increase aid and those have indeed so theyre all the the got them thats right the trial is ongoing and we will see that they dont and lets to be you know members of butland on but the violence is there and the motto of the earth has not been has not changed as you said its very violent very violent thats where i get been the victim suffered multiple injuries as who has you tolerate the god and ill get their response that the authorities and their other purposes. Tina are you seeing a difference between attacks on migrant laborers perhaps our attacks on refugees is there any difference between these kind of attacks and not really because there are you know whenever we talk about the group via group by groups there are mostly you know what cycle are on food groups you know using very. Little you know very violent objects but i got one or two persons of least they also you know it was very very violent the abuse very very violent the victims and also was. Many gays the big road so we have. Gay says that finally you reach justice and. I have to say that you know since the well we managed to get a lot and we managed to who dont want to fight the motion and. We for. Undocumented you know migrants with the opportunity to do good to have lives of justice although in practice its more. Then. You see that only victims and its very difficult for victims. To. Go to do the normal they dont want but they need. As many other victims. Just take a pause for a moment i want to take out when its back to june twenty twelve and that was when golden dawn had just won several seats in parliament and one of those members has adelas participated in a political chat show it was a Great Television i want to show you how he handled himself have a look. At it in a glance you know the real. Thats not the only time thats happened. Petrus it will be wrong to say that heres one golden door member this means that theyre all violent because the way that he conducted himself but there is this seems to be this theme of violence that runs from this movement i want to make sure that i havent run it all out of proportion do you see that because you are fighting it in greece. I tried. To show that he is now elected in the in the parliament and also in athens municipality as councillor he was one of the educators of the sparta more troops now in the process of the trial we see a lot of. He was also lived in a big problem in the streets in the streets of athens with the group of four fascists that were taken in the daylight a lot of migrants and i mean the big problem in greece is that this party they entered the parliament and there is using the parliamentary dues in their or electoral success in order to build a classical storm troops are there he is there was building in the in the period of the therapies but we should start also the other part of the picture in greece there is a huge and the fascist movement from the two thousand and thirteen when they met their publish of faces and the whole bit of the process of the trial started hundreds of thousands of brick people they got on the streets and they are. Shouting loudly that this party should be stopped their offices they should be closed they shouldnt be given space in the media Big Parliament has already voted that the money that is there that they could get from the budget has been stopped because of the child so. There is an effort by the units or god are going to say ok we are. One Political Party or the others this is not the truth. That in the middle of an economic crisis the political crisis try to exploit. This but hopefully that is because its something that in this country and i want to say to all the people that are watching that on seven march this year theres some kind of national day of fight against racism fascists because we see this voice and this Political Forces are rising are rising in france a rise in nasiriya what are they are not getting. The government are rising in germany so for us its not only to describe all of these but nest a picture but its a show that the christian values issues and the fastest movement that comes just so i hear what youre saying and heres someone who might agree with you this is romney on twitter who says one issue is the roots of attraction to far right groups among drinks many golden dawn supporters are just angry greeks who lost their jobs or cant enjoy life as they used to before the economic crisis policymakers and banks are the cause of that crisis but theyre not seen on the streets while refugees are visible to an angry public on the streets which makes them vulnerable a lot of people eunice are seeing this as a reason for why there is anger there and theyre saying the government isnt doing enough but in two thousand and sixteen the ministry of justice and acted a committee to fight racism and xenophobia youre on that committee do you see that as part of the efforts what whats happened so far. Yeah of course there are going to have been some positivistic since two thousand and fifteen of course money positivistic says racially in judicial system and also university and even Police Stations as you mentioned a good forester there are some good escapes at the society also as its a spit was mentioned of course we have very colorful and fascist. Movements that they are supporting but for us as refugees but still be fair or were thats the reality that we see that of course we dont have attacks of course the attacks are have been decreased. Much more now we dont have the incidents that we had every day and i can remember that attacks we had in one day on refugees and migrants at the streets of athens just at the center of so but the problem is that we know that it causes in the parliament a golden dawn is the first party which is which is concerning for us of course they are not attacking but but they can sure as that they are there they have power and they are powerful so i think that the government this is society and all the party should should concern about this issue that this party should not be even in the in the parliament that but it is now the third party of course it is it is not a big numbers of chairs in the parliament but it is a Good Opportunity fourteen for me in that they are. Using this it is it is the most important and from the other point i want to Say Something else also as i said in judicial and also some changes some positive changes we have seen but one things that even the government and also i dont see and public debate it is the problem of raising awareness to the migrants and refugees themselves we know that most of them they are coming from afghanistan which with decades they have been victims of violence or rushton violence or any kind of other while. Or for example from you know arnel iraq or syria with people they have been already victims of fascism in the country so when they are coming in greece most often they know they dont know the other writes about fascism violence and they dont know if they should go to to make a complaint so there is a big gap they are in in greece for raising awareness to that. To migrants and refugees themselves because we know greece is also a country a pacifist country does even know that peoples that they are entering greece for the press time and you can country in a place that they make a complaint in a place that there is a system it is an issue there is an answer compounds compounds the challenges that we show you something can add telling us this is all nearing is blocks the count of greeces far right golden dawn pots and what impact could that possibly have in telling us so that the golden dawn does not have. Major resources at this point because it doesnt have state funding to communicate with voters through the Mainstream Media as it has been using social media quite a bit because its website as well the social media so denying it the possibility to use twitter is important but its also i think a very strong signal about what people in ward are going eyes asians both national and international can do to. Push parties to become more democratic or to become democratic or to deny them. The possibility to be part of the National Dialogue if they are not so i think its a big dilemma that democracies face internationally what should they do with actors that are not democratic and what kind of tools can they use to combat extremism so i think twitter is sending a very strong signal about what can be done and from that point on of course we have to sit down and wait and see. What effect this have on the electoral support of this parties i wonder though if move a like twitter to ban the party on that platform will have a backlash without this tweet from marcos who says golden dawn of the Third Largest party in greece in both the Greek Parliament and the e. U. Parliament was banned from twitter anyone who was against third world for a place that migration as he puts it is an extremist neo nazi to even suggest that greece is for the greeks is the big streamed by the Corporate Media and globalist shills this is actually on the internet not directly to the stream but this is a concept thats out there what do you make of what hes saying a person who is also not quite i think one of them maybe this question is. Directly related to. The goals and. Because i mean if its as if its found. In addition to me. I think everything you know. I mean you know expression is only one of. Us but anything in any case you know cleaning up i mean. I may face these may not be excused especially when i do he sighs when. We have paid us and we. And there they are its not very easy and. You know i got into one of these. Jobs but i think thats why i mean you know there outcome of this would be very very designs in our own swensons i want you to feel about that the team is very briefly right the end of the do that with the end of golden dawn thats done then were done with it depends on the friends. Out you know and the reason of this is it and i mean you know how it will be handled by the media there as well and were not going to need a whole and we said thats a core of the voters out there and ill take this and yeah petros we thank you very much for being part of this conversation they can get the last word so marianne on twitter who says the main question though is whether this rhetoric will translate into votes in future elections or thinking thank you very much guests thank you community we continue our conversation always at the stream these and hash tag a day stream on life. Al jazeera is there what a story breaks the schools today to see what happens next which im sure. 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