Athens: Police in Greece on Thursday arrested the Deputy Leader of the Neo-Nazi Group Golden Dawn who had avoided justice because he was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison in October, a police source said.
Christos Pappas has been running because important trials lowered the sentence to more than 50 defendants in gold on charges including running criminal organizations, murder, and ownership of illegal weapons.
Sentenced to more than 13 years in prison, the 59-year-old Pappas was arrested in a house in the Athens Zografou district, a police source told AFP.
The former Mustachioed furniture shop owner, whose father Lieuten General helped install Dictator Georgios Papadopoulos in 1967, was a famous fan of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and collectors of fascist memorabilia.
He was the last Dawn Gold cadre to avoid justice, after a former member of the Senior Ioannis Lagos, a member of the European Parliament, was extradited from Belgium in May.
Pappas has also avoided the arrest in 2013, when the Senior Dawn Golden member has been collected after the murder of the Anti-Fascist Rapper Pavlos Fyssas, a crime that leads to the destruction of the organization.
Dawn gold experiments, which began in 2015, were described as one of the most significant in Greek political history.
The founder of the organization and Longterm leader Nikos Michaloliakos has also been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison, along with several senior party members.
The former Fringe won 18 seats in parliament in 2012 after utilizing anti-savings and anti-migrant anger during the Greek debt crisis.
Failed to win a single seat in the last parliament election in 2019.