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Since december the twenty fifth more than thirty homes of migrant labor has 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 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 curve thats an antifascist organization dedicated to fighting racism you know suavemente he is 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 get. This is 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. Ok when i see those pictures and i leave the house a fly loss. Tens of pictures like this that i myself have witnessed and i have. Shown to them. Still also i have been with. Attacks in my office. Saw i want to explain more of the attacks itself it was not the big issue for us the big issue specially for me i was there witnessing recording and also. Playing it and also taking it to the authorities the big issue was also going to the actions of the authorities for example when i was attacked when the police came when i referred to the police just asians when i started and when i said that i want to make a complaint the reaction of the police and the citys it was a shocking for me that the police went in front of the Police Station and so if you want to make a complaint i will call to the Attention Center for three nights it was the shocking point for me that i was the president of organization i knew the language i have documents so all for thousands and thousands of refugees and migrants that they didnt have documented they didnt know language and nothing nothing so you can imagine what does it mean. Rushes and wildlings on the timing of those and Eleven Eleven ten eleven. Twelve thirteen and fourteen like. So practiced 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 to top this tweet its been happening at least three times per week thats 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 at 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. The gridley actions are 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 the op and the house give support with clothes and. The movement here in greece really fought for opening the border and given human conditions for. For housing or all of the stupid ones of course in greece because when we saw that the faces of the refugees who are caught the situation sometimes is much worse in greece we have met this at the met there is no for august recess and musician shows up to look man and then he wanted. To do it 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 the subtypes a lot of acts 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 putting it and the government look to cut down to get in your ninetys and hundreds and more than one thousand people they were stamped they were cut up about or be subtypes they fell almost to the wall sometimes not to the hundreds in the house and the. Most of the cracks in greece they were related with then youre not been done they are known try other. Period in two thousand and thirteen the whole program into groups and that in the priesthood because of the method of problem space. And now we motor. There. Are. Six. Not so recent numbers and for hundreds of attacks against my guess and if you just want this important increase we cant be near ninety out the the organizing for or against all of these attacks the police was comedy acts and thats part of the policeman there are members of gog and magog counted in their actions so your new stand before. Really going dont count in august was. They were thinking that they have immunity actions saying no because ok let me just let me just bring an antagonistic antenna if 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 for increased 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 hes pulling slightly higher organizationally it has been in decline i would say since two thousand and thirteen so its local branches. A number of them have shut down its very difficult for the party to be out in the streets 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. These are gonna zation 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 merely 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 those who threw 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 poland on increase is very small and has declined since twenty twelve rather than grown they now hold sixteen seats 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 shimon since they are declining what she brings up a point that we heard petraeus bring up and 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 where they come from what concerns me the most is the way the refugee crisis is used by other parties in the socalled democratic spectrum she goes on to say take for example the fact that popular high ranking in p. S. 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 dawns and the rhetoric will shape peoples attitudes tina what do you make of that this is wider than just a golden dawn. Actually. I made out something to what has been said before yes i mean their acts have been clearly decreased since the persecution of going under and try a little members and thats why i took the outcome of this trial where im from because they were ment of Group Violence but we have also do did you say to know that i mean the dollar i wasnt joining in previous years also you know not only he had to you know this has. Been great but also the get the Great Society coming out as with this violence so in its modern us there and only said before we have no you know small cities we have this groups you know that we have not backed by groups on my own small enough because they havent we have a slight increase aid and also have indeed so theyre all the the god that tried the trial is ongoing and we will see that they dont and lets to be you know members of the and old but the violence is there and the motto of the earth has not been has not changed as 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 youre for it 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 so you know using very. Little you know very violent objects but i got one or two persons of the 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 just do so and. I have to say that you know since the well we managed to get a lot and we managed to who want to fly the nation and. We for. Undocumented you know migrants with the opportunity to do good to have lives as justice although in practice its more. Then. You see that only victims and its very difficult for victims who do. Go to do the least not 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 on Great Television i want to show you how he handled himself have a look. At it in a glance you know the real legacy of. The group. But. 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 start of 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 hitler was building in the in the period of the therapies but we should start also there is 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 flashes 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 negative picture but its a show that the christian values issues and the fastest movement that comes out of the you know so i hear what youre saying and heres someone who might agree with you this is romney on twitter he 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 serious racially and judicial system and also university and even Police Stations as you mentioned at the forestry 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 they are 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 when 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 animal 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 they have rights 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. And somehow they protect the right but it is still it is 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 pot 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 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 interna