Raw Video: Greek Far-Right Politician Assaults Women on Live TV

June 07, 2012 from ITN News

Ilias Kasidiaris, a spokesman for Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party, has thrown water at one female politician and then attacked another on live television. Radical left Syriza party member Rena Dorou had brought up a court case pending against Kasidiaris during a morning talk show on the Greek channel Antenna, prompting the attacks on her and Communist Party member Liana Kanelli, who was struck three times. A statement on the Golden Dawn website said Kasidiaris was "provoked." A public prosecutor has ordered his arrest.

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Golden Dawn (Greece)

Amanecer Dorado es una organización política griega de ideología nacionalsocialista, encabezada por Nikolaos Michaloliakos, un licenciado en Matemáticas que formó parte del cuerpo de paracaidistas del Ejército griego y que en 1976 fue detenido por posesión de armas y explosivo... Explore this topic

Ilias Kasidiaris

Ilias Kasidiaris is a member of parliament for Hrisi Avgi (Golden Dawn), a far-right political party in Greece. Explore this topic

Liana Kanelli

Garyfallia Kanelli, in Greek Γαρυφαλλιά Κανέλλη, is a Greek journalist and Member of the Greek Parliament for the Communist Party of Greece since 2000. She studied law at the University of Athens. In 1975, starting her career in journalism, she was acclaimed by Prime Minister ... Explore this topic

Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. According to the 2011 census, Greece's population is around 11 million. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, its urban area also including Piraeus. Greece is strategically located at the cr... Explore this topic

Communist Party of Greece

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Syriza

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Ant1

Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna. It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, a... Explore this topic

Assault

At Common Law, an intentional act by one person that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact. An assault is carried out by a threat of bodily harm coupled with an apparent, present ability to cause the harm. It is both a crime and a tort ... Explore this topic

Far-right politics

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Politics of Greece

The Politics of Greece takes place in a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Greece is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Hellenic Parliament. Between the re... Explore this topic

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