The threshold of the Judicial Palace passed at 10am on Thursday (08.05.25) 28 arrested, members of far -right organization acting at Thessaloniki.
Among the arrested people who participated in Right -wing organization, which was disrupted yesterday during the large police operation in Thessalonikithey are 13 minors.
The “28” are expected to file for the charges they face, before the prosecutor and investigator in order to decide their criminal treatment.
At the expense of those arrested, as well as two other members, a case file was filed, where appropriate, for its offenses Human trafficking – recruitment of minors for committing criminal acts, robbery, criminal organization, theft, bodily harm – hazardous bodily harm, foreign property deterioration, stimulation of crimes, violence, or violent of weapons laws, drugsabout flares – fireworks, violence offenses on the occasion of sports events or sports background and about personal data.
VASILIS VERBERIDIS / MIOTONDAM
How did they act
Damage to schools, political party and collective offices, paste and recording nationalist symbols and slogans, two knife threat robberies, an attack with fan characteristincluding – among other things – the action of the criminal organization, operating in Thessaloniki under the cloak of far -right collectivity.
The disintegration of the organization, called “Nationalist Youth of Thessaloniki”, police said, arresting 28 members (16 to 28 years), including 13 minors, but also the alleged leadership, while the case file includes two more.
According to the authorities’ investigation, the organization’s action dates back to at least 2019.
The defendants as members of the “narrow core” of the nationalist organization used as a main way of communicating a specific online platform while maintaining a lot of accounts on social mediawhere they put forward their far -right ideology.
According to an ELAS announcement, the organization had a specific hierarchy with adults and earlier members playing a decisive role by directing the younger members, while continuous efforts were made to recruit new members.
The organization kept financial autonomythrough the contributions of its members, used for supplying materials and objects (banners, tricks, spray, helmets, bats, pyrotechnics, etc.).
As stated in the same announcement, some members had distinguished distinct roles, such as supplying materials, slogans, detection of prospective targets, monitoring open sources of opponent ideology, causing physical damage, robberies, damage and more. In addition, along with other colleges of the so -called nationalist -patriotic space, in rallies, marches, as well as in other events with ambiguity and obvious distinctive organization.
Police investigations into the houses of the detainees found and seized clothing and pieces of fabric with nationalist symbols, numerous stickers, books and printed material depicting nationalist symbols, symbols of racist nature and the organization of the organization, weapons such as iron -knives, knives, sword, metal and wooden rodshunting cartridges, sling and pyrotechnic construction, hemp packs, precision scales, 33 mobile phones, 6 computers and two anti -Semitic masks.
More specifically, found and seized:
-Ruchism and pieces of fabric with nationalist symbols, numerous stickers, books and printed material depicting nationalist symbols, -racist symbols and logos of the organization,
-Rough reinforcement (rails, knives, swords, metal and wooden rods, hunting cartridges, sling and pyrotechnic construction),
-We packages containing cannabis,
-1 precision scales,
-33 mobile phone devices,
-6 computers and
-2 anti -Semitic masks.