Page 32 of 46 the deportation of Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau, as well as the late December 2022 vandalism of a monument marking the location of an old Jewish cemetery within the Aristotle University campus. The same mural was also vandalized upon its completion in 2021. On November 8, perpetrators threw black paint on the Holocaust Memorial in the city of Kavala. Kavala Mayor Mouriadis ordered the cleaning of the monument and denounced the attack, calling it “an unacceptable act of intolerance and blind fanaticism.” On March 14, the Athens Bar Association announced it had disbarred Konstantinos Plevris, defense attorney of the now-defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, for having given Nazi salutes in the courtroom on three occasions. On March 28, Hellenic Police reported having cooperated with the National Intelligence Service and Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, to dismantle a terrorist network planning attacks against a synagogue and a kosher restaurant in Athens. Police arrested two suspects of Pakistani nationality and identified a third suspect, also Pakistani, who allegedly recruited and instructed the others from abroad. The two suspects remained in custody pending trial. On April 11, parliament passed a law preventing “criminal organizations disguised as political parties” from running in national elections. On May 2, the Supreme Court rejected far-right Hellenes party’s application to run, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023 United States Department of State • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor