Pavlos Fyssas was stabbed to death in a suburb of Piraeus in September 2013. Witnesses revealed that a 40-strong “assault group” was activated within 15 minutes, after Golden Dawn members received text messages on their mobile phones. The group arrived at the scene holding bats and other weapons, ready to attack. The prosecution aims to prove the Golden Dawn is a criminal organization that acts in coordination. More testimonies of witnesses to the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas will be examined.
 
During the examination of witnesses in court, police officers who were called out to the scene of the murder claimed that they “did their best”. However, the court president responded that all they did was arrest a man who was sitting in a car (referring to Roupakias) after the victim identified him right before passing away. Police officers did “nothing more” in the president’s words.
 
Golden Dawn has carried out several violent and lethal assaults. After Fyssas case is concluded, the court will hear testimonies related to an attack on Egyptian fishermen in Perama, near Piraeus, in June 2012. According to the case file, a group of Golden Dawn members arrived on motorcycles outside the home of four fishermen, where they smashed windows, threw flares and broke in. Three of the fishermen managed to escape on time, while a fourth who was sleeping was viciously assaulted.
 
In this case the main defendants are the head of the Golden Dawn offices in Perama Anastasios Pantazis, Konstantinos Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Agriogiannis, Thomas Marias and Markos Evgenikos.
 
Meanwhile, there were no reports of violence as the neo-Nazi party held a torch-lit march at the Thermopylae Pass, some 200 km from Athens, on Saturday to commemorate the battle of Spartan King Leonidas and his 300 warriors against Persian invaders in 480 BC. Authorities were on high alert due to concerns of possible violence as the site is less than 300 meters from two hotels used to host about 500 migrants and refugees.