Police releases DIAS-HQ radio transcripts from night of Fyssas murder

The police have released transcripts of the conversations between the DIAS motorcycle units and the police HQ on the night of the murder of antifascist activist and rapper Pavlos Fyssas by Golden Dawn member Giorgos Roupakias in Keratsini on the 17^th of September 2013.

One DIAS police officer informed the HQ that “twenty people from Golden Dawn are informing us that they had a clash with anarchists. We are nearby. We are trying to calm things down. You should know that from what we can see, there are some knuckledusters and weapons”.

The transcripts further reveal that the DIAS police adopted a passive role during critical moments, as they had been “assured” by the Golden Dawn members that they would only “target” anarchists and not the other patrons of the cafeteria, where the fight broke out. The police HQ then ordered the DIAS units to “stay at distance, in order to inform police HQ of what is going on”, which had fateful consequences.

During the altercation between the Golden Dawn gang and Fyssas’ friends, the DIAS police unit requested back up on four separate occasions from the nearby Nikea and Perama police departments, however the HQ radio operator did not respond and later asked if foreigners were involved in the clash.

A DIAS officer who was present in the fight can be heard informing the HQ that “one person is bleeding, possibly from a knife. He is pointing out another person who attacked him. Both men are on site”.

Computers reveal Golden Dawn’s paramilitary structure

The police also revealed photographs that were recovered from computers that belong to the head of Golden Dawn’s infamous Nikea officer, Giorgos Patelis, where at least ten members of the neo-Nazi party are shown in military fatigues brandishing assault rifles and machine guns in training grounds near the river Neda waterfalls in Peloponnesus.

In other pictures recovered from Patelis’ computer, Golden Dawn members are depicted playing with their weapons, aiming each other. Golden Dawn MPs, such as Ilias Kasidiaris, also appear in a number of photographs with weapons and other party members.

According to the police, some of the Golden Dawn members posing in the recovered photographs were actually involved in the murder of Pavlos Fyssas. These pictures appear to mostly confirm the paramilitary organization of Golden Dawn.