Golden Dawn number two Christos Pappas evaded his arrest Friday, October 23 in Greece, unlike the leader and dozens of members of the neo-Nazi group who surrendered to police on Thursday after the broadcast of an arrest warrant against them.
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The lawyer for Pappas, ideologue and historic member of the party, announced Friday that the latter would not surrender to the authorities.
Police searches of several properties where the fugitive could have been hiding were carried out without success, said Greek public television ERT.
58-year-old Christos Pappas was sentenced to 13 years in prison after a landmark trial in October before the Athens Criminal Court in which several party officials were found guilty of leading an "
organization criminal
”.
A great admirer of Mussolini and collector of memorabilia from the Italian fascist era, Pappas, whose father had an active role in the military coup in 1967, was the arm of the neo-Nazi formation leader Nikos Michaloliakos, himself also sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment.
He had already fled for the first time, in 2013, when the leaders of Golden Dawn were arrested following the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas.
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