Two members of Greece’s Golden Dawn shot dead

Two members of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn were murdered and a third wounded in a drive-by shooting outside the party's offices in an Athens suburb on the 1 November 2013..

The attack cames weeks after several members of Golden Dawn, including the leader, were arrested on suspicion of forming a criminal organisation. Those arrests followed the killing of an anti-fascist musician.

A Golden Dawn supporter was subsequently charged over the killing of Pavlos Fyssas, 34, whose stage name was Killah P.
His death sparked protests in Athens and across Greece.

On the 16 November 2013 an obscure leftist group claimed responsibility for the shooting of the two members of Golden Dawn.

Greece's Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias warned of 'the beginning of a spiral of terrorist attacks and a bloody vendetta with insecurity spreading in society'.

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Kathimerini, 02.11.13: Police suspect urban guerrillas behind murder of Golden Dawn members http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_02/11/2013_525979

ESO: Background information: Greek justice hits neo-Nazi ‘Golden Dawn’ http://www.europeansources.info/record/greek-justice-hits-neo-nazi-golden-dawn/

France24, 17.11.13: Group claims murders of Greek right-wing members http://www.france24.com/en/20131117-group-claims-murders-greek-right-wing-members-golden-dawn-fyssas

Deutsche Welle, 17.11.13: Greek leftist group claims Golden Dawn assassinations http://dw.de/p/1AIxB

Kathimerini, 16.11.13: New urban guerrilla group claims murders of Golden Dawn members http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_16/11/2013_528150

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