The Misdemeanor Courts of Athens have found former MP candidate for Golden Dawn Alexandros Plomaritis guilty of inciting racist violence and issued a three-year suspended sentence.
Plomaritis was accused of making racist comments in a documentary by director Konstantinos Georgousis, where he referred to migrants as “subhumans” and “taints”. Clips from the documentary had been broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK.
The candidate for the neo-Nazi party told the courts that his comments were made during an exaggerated, private conversation at a café and claimed to have thought that he was talking to a student competing an assignment rather than a professional director.
The director submitted the video evidence during the trial and stated that he had much “harder material”, including violent acts that appear to be committed by Plomaritis.
