telling about the attitude of the authorities at that time, despite the public outcry and the political pressure to track the culprits down. It is also telling that no member of the organization that had been present at the crime scene that day stayed in his own home for several days. With the exception of the perpetrator, who was put on trial ater seven years of contumacy and was inally convicted for attempted murder, nobody else was bothered in the least. A member of the organization testiied to the police that during those days he was at a camping area, “along with my girlfriend named M., whose last name is unknown to me … I do not know her address or her telephone number … I do not know the name of the tavern where we had lunch four or ive times”. To a police oicer who asked him if anybody else knew this M., he replied: “There is an acquaintance of mine, his name is S., I do not know any other personal details about him, he lives in Kypseli, but I do not know either his telephone number or his address”. When the police oicer asked him if anybody else knew that he had gone camping, he replied: “Yes, my parents and my siblings”, yet he also did not know where they currently were. “My mother is out of Athens, but I do not know exactly where she is; as for my siblings, I do not know where they are”. This ridiculous testimony was evaluated by the judicial authorities as credible and serious, and the person in question was not even called back for supplementary testimony. Other members of the organization who had been at the crime scene either were never called to testify or were called only once; despite the fact that they had no alibi, they were not pursued. The highly deicient investigation of that crime did not only secure impunity for most of the perpetrators of a brutal, violent, murderous assault. It also gave this organization a green light to commit this kind of violent criminal act, as they had, free and unpunished, in broad daylight, in front of dozens of people, just outside the Athens courts. The sole defendant of the case absconded for seven years and later chose for himself the time and political juncture to stand trial. In the meantime, nobody had searched for him. One may easily conclude that if “Periandros” had not chosen to stand trial, he would have never been put on trial. At the same time, however, his conviction had its efects, since to date it remains the only conviction of a former high-ranking member of Golden Dawn for such a serious felony. The verdict found that he had acted together with other, unknown members of the organization. The organization can never remove this stain, although when everything had been said and done it broke its ties with “Periandros”. It is also certain that had not “Periandros” been accused and convicted back then, his political career and his high proile within the organization would by now have made him a member of the Greek Parliament. This may be a useful conclusion, especially for the judiciary. 48 | ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG