Photojournalists give evidence regarding Friday attack by Golden Dawn party supporters

22:06 7/7/2014 - Πηγή: E-Typos

The head of the Greek Photojournalists' Union Marios Lolos and two photojournalists, Symela Pantzartzi of the ANA-MPA and Yiannis Kemmos, on Monday gave evidence to the two examining magistrates handling the Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) case regarding an attack against them by party supporters.
The two magistrates

had summoned them to testify about the circumstances of an attack the previous Friday, when they were covering the arrival of party leader Nikos Mihaloliakos and two GD MPs at the magistrate's office to answer to additional charges against them. An argument and verbal exchange with GD supporters outside the courthouse had escalated into kicks and punches, in which Pantzartzi and Kemmos were slightly injured.
Sources said the three reporters also testified about previous incidents of violence against them by members and supporters of the party, while noting that police on the scene had each time failed to intervene.
Among them an incident outside the Appeals court the previous January, after the release from custody of the MPs Georgios Germenis and Panagiotis Iliopoulos, when GD members had thrown bottles at a DT public television journalist while she was on the air, and acts of verbal and physical violence targeting members of the press by the MP Ilias Kasidiaris outside the Evelpidon court complex last October, after he was released with conditions.
The photojournalists also reported that members of the party took videos of them when they covered events involving Golden Dawn, something that no other Greek party has ever done.