The Militant People’s Revolutionary Forces group published online a 21-page response to the allegations that the murder of two Golden Dawn members that took place in November 2013 outside the Neo Iraklio offices of the ultranationalist party was a provocation.
The group’s first declaration regarding the execution-style shooting of Giorgos Fountoulis and Manolis Kapelonis, which was released later in November 2013, was met with skepticism from leftist groups, some of which suggested the shooting may have been the act of provocateurs intending to polarize public opinion, after the brutal member of Pavlos Fyssas.
In their response, which was published on athens.indymedia.org, the militant group claims that “no other armed revolutionary act of the past 20 years has been as taunted that much by the left, especially from some anarchists and antiauthoritarians who spoke of ‘provocateurs’ etc, concealing their true role in spreading defeatism, victimization and helping the state to isolate and suppress revolutionaries who have chosen the armed struggle”.
The group expressed is certainty that many interpreted the execution of the two Golden Dawn members “as a positive and necessary attack, due to the countless brutalities committed by Golden Dawn members in recent years” and “as a ‘natural’ reaction to the murderous efforts of the neo-Nazis which escalated for years and resulted in the political assassination of antifascist Pavlos Fyssas”.
