The police published a number of shocking digital images it recovered from the personal computers, laptops and USB drives of Golden Dawn MPs. The police also reported that in some cases efforts had been made to erase the digital files, but computer experts were able to restore the data.
In some of the recovered pictures, MPs and members of the ultranationalist party are shown firing weapons and engaging in what appears to be military training, while other pictures show members clad in Klu Klux Klan uniforms and openly giving Nazi salutes to one another. Golden Dawn’s spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris appears in many of the pictures posing with various fire arms, as well as leading what appear to be training sessions of other Golden Dawn members.
Kasidiaris claimed that none of the weapons in the pictures are illegal firearms and that there is nothing reprehensible about the training. Regarding the pictures where Golden Dawn members appear to be clad in Klu Klux Klan uniforms and giving Nazi salutes in front of a Golden Dawn banner, Ilias Panagiotaros claimed that the pictures were taken at a fancy dress party.
The Golden Dawn MPs spectacularly also claimed that the Nazi salutes they were pictured giving were not «Nazi» salutes, but rather the salute used in the Greek Army during the Second World War, until the German Occupation.
