Masked nationalists claiming affiliation to Greek neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn say they disrupted a municipal exhibition of artworks by a North Macedonia painter in Thessaloniki.
In a video posted on YouTube, the Golden Dawn Youth Front says it “banned” the exhibition by artist Sergej Andreevski in the Thessaloniki suburb of Kalamaria.
The video apparently shot Wednesday shows several masked and hooded men marching into the municipal gallery to confront Andreevski, whom they accused of posting irredentist material online and “casting doubt on the Greekness of our homeland.”
“You have no right to be here,” one of the men says in the video.
“We have relatives and grandfathers who sacrificed their lives for the Greekness of Macedonia,” he adds.
Kalamaria Mayor Ioannis Dardamanelis says a group of 10 people disrupted the exhibition “on its final day.”
He calls the protesters “irredentist hotheads” seeking publicity ahead of next month’s national elections.
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