Golden Dawn Candidate Found Guilty of Inciting Racist Violence

A court in Athens on Tuesday presented Golden Dawn parliamentary candidate Alexandros Plomaritis with one-year suspended sentence for inciting racist violence, Ekathimerini reports. The trial against Plomaritis was based on a video recording of a documentary on the rising popularity of the Golden Dawn party, in which the candidate, followed for a month during his 2012 pre-election campaign, is seen protesting against foreign migrants in Greece and people with leftist political persuasions. "We are ready to open the ovens. We will turn them into soap but we may get a rash... We will make lamps from their skin," Plomaritis says while sitting a cafe in central Athens, talking to a group of the party’s supporters.