Former Golden Dawn MEP Ioannis Lagosextradited on criminal charges
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Ioannis Lagos, a Greek far-right member of the European Parliament, was deported to Greece Saturday to begin serving a 13-year prison sentence.
Lagos spends his first night in isolation in the high-security prison of Domokos, in central Greece.
Lagos’ request that he be held at a prison in Athens, apparently to keep up with his work in the European Parliament, was rejected by authorities.
Lagos lived in Brussels since a Greek court in October convicted him and 17 other former Greek lawmakers from the extreme-right Golden Dawn party of leading a criminal organization or being members in it.
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This content was published on May 15, 2021 - 15:29
May 15, 2021 - 15:29
ATHENS (Reuters) -A former member of Greece s extreme right Golden Dawn party, Ioannis Lagos, was extradited to Athens on Saturday from Brussels, where he was a member of the European parliament.
EU lawmakers stripped Lagos of his immunity last month, paving the way for his arrest and extradition to Greece where he is to serve a prison sentence alongside other party members.