Three suspected far-right supporters receive suspended jail terms for beating up the mayor of Greece’s second city Thessaloniki at a weekend rally.
A 20-year-old man found guilty of inflicting “dangerous bodily wounds” during Saturday’s attack on Yiannis Boutaris is given a 21-month suspended sentence.
Two other men, aged 20 and 36, receive slightly lesser terms after the tribunal in Thessaloniki convicted them of causing “material damage” and “social disturbance.”
Boutaris, 75, had to be escorted from a rally commemorating the massacre of Black Sea Greeks in Turkey during and after World War I when members of the crowd turned violent.
A fierce opponent of Greek ultra-nationalism, Boutaris told the court he had been heckled and called a “Turkophile and dirty Jew” just before the attack.
Footage of the incident shows people starting to throw objects at him as he prepared to leave. The mayor, who was later hospitalised, is seen falling to the ground.
— AFP
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