Man (34) dies after being stabbed by neonazis

Hip-hopper Pavlos Fyssas attacked by men in 'black and camouflage uniforms'

Victim dies in hospital after being stabbed three times in the chest outside a café in Amfiali, a district of Piraeus, shortly after midnight by a group of neonazis dressed in black and camouflage uniforms

A 34-year-old man died in the early hours of Wednesday morning after he was attacked by neonazis and subsequently stabbed in Piraeus.

The victim has been named as Pavlos Fyssas, a hip-hopper involved in the antifascist scene.

He was stabbed in the chest outside a café at 60 Panayi Tsaldari Avenue in Amfiali, in the Keratsini district of Piraeus, shortly after midnight by a group of neonazis dressed in black and camouflage uniforms.

He was taken to Tzanio hospital, where he died shortly afterwards.

Before he died, he managed to identify the perpetrator and his accomplices, according to reports.

Fyssas was a hip-hop performer who went by the stage name of Killah P. He was involved in organising concerts against fascism and other social activities in the area where he lived.

At the time of the attack, he was with his partner and two friends at the cafe.

Shortly after midnight, a group of young men wearing black sweatshirts and camouflage trousers confronted the group in the café and a scuffle ensued.

Fyssas and his three friends initially managed to escape their attackers, but as they ran down the street, a car blocked their way.

The driver got off the car and stabbed the 34 year old at least three times on the footpath.

The perpetrator then fled on foot with his accomplices.

Police later detained a 55-year man, who was found in possession of a knife.

Police investigations are continuing.

During the night, about 200 antifascists gathered at the murder scene. There were also gatherings of antifascists in Exarchia, in central Athens, and in Thessaloniki.

Antifascists will assemble on Wednesday at 6pm at Keratsisi.

Friends of the victim have been paying tribute to him on his Facebook page.

Police arrested a 45-year-old man with links to the extreme right after an argument that started over a soccer match on Tuesday night led to a 34-year-old man, known to be a leftist, being stabbed to death in the southern Athens neighborhood of Amfiali.

According to police, an argument broke out at a cafeteria between the two men over the Olympiakos vs Paris St Germain Champions League match. The 45-year-old left but then attacked the victim, with the help of about 15 others, as the 34-year-old left the cafe.

Reports suggest that the victim told police the name of his attacker shortly before he lost consciousness and was taken to the hospital. The 34-year-old, identified as Pavlos Fyssas, died shortly after arriving at Tzanneio Hospital.

Fyssas had been part of the Greek hip-hop scene since 1997 and performed under the name Killah P.

Speaking on Skai radio on Wednesday Keratsini Mayor Loukas Tzannis said the victim had been involved in a heated discussion at the cafeteria and on his way out of the cafe was ambushed by a group of 15, who according to witnesses were members of extreme-right Golden Dawn.

Tzannis, claimed that Fyssas’s attackers were members of the far right. The 45-year-old suspected attacker was arrested near the scene of the stabbing.

Anti-capitalist party ANTARSYA and the Communist Party condemned the incident, blaming Golden Dawn for the victim’s death and claiming that Fyssas was targeted because of his anti-fascists activity.

Petros Constantinou, a spokesman for ANTARSYA, alleged that there had been no quarreling prior to the incident, but that a group of antifascists were attacked by about 40 members of Golden Dawn outside the cafe. He also claimed on Skai radio that the attack occurred in the presence of Dias police units.

Responding to the allegations, Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris denied his party's involvement in the incident and said that the party would respond with lawsuits.

He told Skai radio claimed that there were no political motives behind the attack and that opponents were unjustly accusing the party of creating “a climate of polarization and war”.

sounds more like a social club for assholes than a political movement

by the father of Pavlos: Pavlos' friends made a remark against Golden Dawn inside a cafe where they were watching a football match. Somebody from a nearby table overheard them and made a phonecall to Golden Dawn members. Golden Dawn squads arrived almost simultaneously with DIAS motorbike police. Pavlos tried to help his friends evade the scene, but he was ambushed by another Golden Dawn squad and surrounded. Then another Golden Dawn associate drove with his car opposite in an one-way street, stopped and stabbed him to death, while the DIAS policemen did not intervene. One girl asked them to help but they didn't. They only approached afterwards to arrest the man with the main suspect.

by police-affiliate journalists: the 45 year old that was arrested by the police, admitted being the one who murdered Pavlos and being a member of the Golden Dawn neonazi party.

by the mayor of Keratsini: the attackers were well-known neonazi members, this is only one of a series of violence against mainly immigrants.

by other local residents: it all seemed like an ambush and not an arguement, there were dozens of people hunting down and surrounding one (Pavlos), their faces and uniforms resemble to the ones that attacked the communist party (KKE) members a few days earlier.

All the mass media, tv, web and radio, continue to spread confusion, hosting Golden Dawn guest speakers in a pathetic attempt to turn things around. One of the most hideous tv personas (called "parrots" in Greece for their repetition of government propaganda) notorious for his slander against strikes, demonstrations and workers struggles, Aris Portosalte even tried to convince a Golden Dawn parliamentary representative that they have to make sure that nobody would speak about Golden Dawn in such an accusatory way!

At the time, there is a heavy police presence around Golden Dawn offices, officially due to an "investigation" (as if the other attackers would hide in their central offices), but the whole scene seems rather as a cordon of protection to the state's useful parastate thugs.

Today, the world learned of the stabbing death of Greek antifascist hiphop artist Pavlos Fissas, who performed under the name MC Killah P, at the hands of thugs affiliated with the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. His death is just the most recent since the party’s rise in recent years, but may have tipped a country teetering on the brink of civil war into incredibly volatile territory. In response to the murder, antifascists have already clashed with police across the country, and Golden Dawn offices have been attacked.

I managed to reach anarchist contacts in Athens following a march from the site of Fissas’s murder that resulted in clashes with police, and connected with one activist long enough to get an interview. Given the reality of Golden Dawn infiltration of the Greek police, and other very grave realities on the ground, I’ve withheld my contact’s name. Below is our conversation.

Openly collaborating

Senior Consultant of Nikaia hospital: “yesterday’s murderers have been training on the bodies of immigrants for three years”
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Strong statements were made by the Senior Consultant of Nikaia Hospital Neurosurgical Clinic where Pavlos Fyssas (murdered by the 45-year-old Golden Dawner yesterday in Keratsini) was taken. As Mr Papanikolaou told in SKAI TV, “they have been training on the bodies of immigrants for three years. The injured immigrants were being brough to us here and we have been making public warnings about the attacks from such groups”. Mr Papanikolaou said there is impunity that helped them “grow” and added that the media have been too nice with them. He accused journalists of “inviting the fascists to lifestyle TV shows as if they were catwalk models”.

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Asked if there was a murderous intent in the attack against Pavlos Fyssas, Mr Papanikolaou said “Any strike with a knife on the heart region proves there was an a priori murderous intent. There were two wounds and the second probably indicates that the attacker twisted the knife”.

Translated from LIFO magazine’s website: www.lifo.gr/now/society/33703

Golden Dawn in panic cancel their events today

Golden Dawn leader Michaloliakos announced a few hours after the assassination of Pavlos Fyssas that next day he will give a speech in Nikaia (the local branch where the murdered Roupakias is member of) he invited all the Nazis to join him for the event. At the same time that the vice leader Pappas and the press officer of GD Kassidiaris claimed that the murder has nothing to do with Golden Dawn. However in early hours of the morning after the big antifa demonstrations that took place all over the country and attacked GD local branches everywhere, the event was cancelled, and vanished from their webpages. Meanwhile antifa and the trade Unions of Peireus and Keratsini (the latter are affiliated with the Communist Party and its union PAME) announced a counter gathering close to the scheduled Nazi event.