“The mood here today is resonant of the celebrations we saw with the liberation of Athens from the Nazis.
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The Greek president, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, said the judgment was an important day for democracy and evidence that Greek institutions were able to “fend off any attempt to undermine them.”.
The hearing was the biggest trial of fascists since the prosecution of the Nazis at Nuremberg after the second world war.
Clashes did break out as rocks and molotov cocktails were hurled at police, who responded with teargas and water cannon.
We owe it to the history of this country, we owe it to democracy, we owe it to our children.”.
Greece suffered appallingly under Nazi occupation, with almost all of its Jewish community sent to the gas chambers. »
