Rebroadcast widely in the international corporate media, the televised incident obviously was no secret. What is more, members of this organization the prosecutor termed “peaceful”, have repeatedly referred back to the incident in an efort to terrorize their political opponents. During a June 2012 election campaign rally, Elias Panagiotaros told the crowd that if Greek MPs dared to bring forth the issue of the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (known in Greece by the acronym FYROM and not as Macedonia), “then we will show them the Antenna video [i.e., the video of Kasidiaris’ assault] as a warning, and if they do not get it, then we will make it even more clear”.43 The violence by ultra-right groups is not just a matter of assaults during nighttime “patrols”. It is also public violence, loud crime. Violence is both the medium and the message. Its public dissemination not only tests the limits of the system, but also calls on all “deviants” to comply, to submit and bend over. A | “BLOOD NEVER STOPS!” From the attempted murder of University student Dimitris Kousouris in 1998, an assault that shocked public opinion and led to a temporary suspension of the activities of Golden Dawn, through the murder of a Pakistani bicycle rider by two members of this organization, to the murder of Pavlos Fyssas in September 2013, the cycle of bloodshed indeed never stops. The Racist Violence Recording Network documented 154 incidents of racist violence in the year 2012, including threats, hazardous and grievous bodily injuries, and even homicide. The testimonies of the victims reveal very similar patterns of action by the perpetrators. Of special interest is the confession by a member of Golden Dawn who was arrested for arson in May 2013. The perpetrator stated the party had organized “attack battalions” active in the areas of Kypseli and Agios Panteleimon, Athens, starting in September 2012, and that he along with 30 other persons had formed a “committee” aimed at “policing” Kypseli. “We formed ive-man teams and patrolled from 7 pm to 4 am”. He also claimed that their teams were formed ater they had failed to close down foreigners’ shops in the area, and that he himself used to patrol with his pit bull dog called “Chrysavgi” [Golden Dawn]!44 The fact that this man was arrested for arson of one of these shops probably means that these “attack battalions” of numerous persons, acting continuously, as groups and according to a ixed schedule, were “patrolling” in order to impose “order” around the foreigners’ shops and neighbourhoods in a way that its the criteria of a criminal organization under Article 187 of the Penal Code, rather than that of a political organization, let alone a normal parliamentary party. It is thus very impressive that, ater all these confessions, the defendant was only charged with a misdemeanour and walked free. 43. 44. 46 | See http://newpost.gr/post/133306/o-ilias-panagiotaros-tis-xrysis-aygis-apeilei-oti-thapesoyn-fapes-kai-sti-voyli-#ixzz2dv7nCwXA. See http://www.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_ kathremote_1_21/05/2013_499876. ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG