Greek minister denounces father’s Nazi salute in court

By AFP 11 October 2022, 2:47 pm

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Konstantinos Plevris, the lawyer of a jailed ex-Golden Dawn Eurodeputy (MEP), gives a Nazi salute during a hearing in the appeal trial of dozens of jailed members of Greek neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn at Athens' Court of Appeal on October 7, 2022. (Tatiana Bolari/AFP)

Greece’s health minister denounces his far-right father for a Nazi salute made during the ongoing appeal trial of neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn.

Thanos Plevris, a former member of the far-right Greek party Laos, calls the gesture “bestial.”

The minister tells Skai TV he took particular offense that his father Kostas Plevris — who is defending a jailed ex-Golden Dawn Eurodeputy in the trial — made the gesture last week during testimony given by the mother of Pavlos Fyssas, an anti-fascist rapper murdered by a Golden Dawn member in 2013.

“It made me shudder,” Plevris told Skai TV. “First, the salute was inside a courtroom. And second… that it was in front of a woman whose child was murdered by a Nazi.”