Greek Politician Assaults 2 women on Live TV
The spokesman for Greece's extremist far-right Golden Dawn party physically assaulted two left-wing deputies on live television during a morning political show.
A public prosecutor ordered his immediate arrest following the incident on Thursday.
Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris had taken offence at a reference by radical left Syriza party member Rena Dorou to a court case that is pending against him.
He hurled a glass of water across the table over Dorou when she said there was a "crisis of democracy when people who will take the country back 500 years have got into the Greek parliament."
He then turned on prominent Communist Party member Liana Kanelli, hitting her around the face three times.
Politics Greek style
Politics Greek style
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Politics Greek style
How gauche.
Should have just called then "sluts" (or whatever the Greek expression is).
Should have just called then "sluts" (or whatever the Greek expression is).
Re: Politics Greek style
Oh it gets better...
A Greek far-right politician who slapped a left-wing politician in the face and threw water at another during a live television talk show has sued his victims for defamation today.
Ilias Kasidiaris, spokesman of the far-right Golden Dawn party, said he would also sue private TV station Antenna for wrongful detention after he was locked in a room in the studio following the attack until he broke down the door and escaped.
Kasidiaris shocked viewers last week with the attack on Rena Dourou, a deputy in the radical leftist Syrizia party and Liana Kanelli, a veteran communist deputy, during a heated debate ahead of national elections on June 17.
The 31 year-old former army commando went into hiding after the assault but issued a statement at the weekend blaming the two middle-aged women for deliberately provoking him into the attack.
'I have come to the prosecutor today to file a lawsuit against Mrs Kanelli and Mrs Dourou for unprovoked defamation, and against TV station Antenna for my illegal detention,' Kasidiaris, dressed in a white shirt and dark sunglasses, said outside court.
Golden Dawn denies being a neo-Nazi party, but its image has been severely dented by continuously replayed footage of the incident as well as a variety of other pictures showing party members splashed with fake blood, making Nazi-style salutes or grinning next to an oven at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”