A Golden Dawn politician and his far-right supporters stormed an elementary school in the Perama area of Athens, threatening staff and lobbing punches, protesting plans to offer classes to refugee children from a nearby camp.
Yiannis Lagos, a member of parliament for the Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party hurled abusive words and aggressively pushed his way into the school. He was accompanied by a number of supporters.
“Instances of violence and racism have no place in a school environment,” according to the Education Ministry’s general secretary, adding that “Today’s acts by the Golden Dawn members … will not affect the operation of the school.”
The Golden Dawn members entered the school during a meeting between local officials, teachers and parents who were scheduled to discuss plans to offer after school classes to 25 refugee children who live in a nearby camp.
The government has been trying to integrate refugee children into school systems across the country. There are tens of thousands of refugees trapped in Greece, including school-aged children.
After storming the school, the Golden Dawn members threatened those attending the meeting and punched some teachers and parents, according to Greek media reports.
The video comes from Star News in Greece:
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Greek government must start the deportation of refugees, they’ve increased the criminality and too much taxes money is been wasted with them. And did the government made sure that most Greeks would support the coming of refugees? I don’t think so. Within a time the government will do the same as the German government, the confiscation of second homes without compensating the owners to give to refugees, arresting people for had spoke out against the immigration and so on. The intention to try to ban an opposition party is just one more reason why democracy is a fraud.
Shame!! What you describe is dehumanizing, not a recrimination of democracy. The example of the Greeks on the islands is exemplary and your type of politics caused WWII. Again, I say to you, Shame for your lack of inclusion and compassion.
You are a disgrace! The people of Greece owe migrants nothing. The prime responsibility of government should be securing the safety and wellbeing of its own people, first and foremost. You have no idea what we are going through. Democracy is a sham.
Try moving to trumps us. Yu are a perfect ft.
The Coffee House Atheist Marxists want to hold hands with the world and sing Kumbaya..while the Greeks suffer, and are being stigmatised by all the world. We didn’t start the wars, we didn’t want geopolitical gains, or war profiteering, yet..The Germans and the Brussels Cartels are destroying Greece, ship the refugees to Waco Texas where George W. Bush has his Ranch..Greeks must look after Greeks, because the world has no sympathy for us. Do you honestly think I will offer money and food to Refugees, while my fellow Greeks are finding food in the garbage pile?? And wondering how they will pay the electricity and heating bills-while the Marxists pass a bill to offer housing and washing machines to the refugees..????..We are an Orthodox Nation, we will not be assimilated as a Secular state. The Turks tried for four hundred years to assimilate us and our religion-they failed and Greece was reborn. If the Refugees truly want to stay in Greece, let them be baptised into Orthodox Christianity..
It is just A matter of time before the Greek far left initiates the civil war against the EU backed Greek government. The question is will Greek far right militant factions also emerge to fight both the far left and the EU backed Greek government. Albanian separatists will inevitably take advantage of this chaos to initiate their own movement.