Killah P: Murdered by Golden Dawn Member

Pavlos Fyssas, a 34 year old antifascist and hip hop artist (Killah P), has been murdered by Golden Dawn neo-Nazis in Keratsini, a working class neighborhood in Piraeus, Greece.

From eye-witness reports: “A group of 15-20 fascists, wearing black t-shirts and military trousers and boots, was deployed on P. Tsaldari street. During that time, Killah P was walking with his girlfriend and another couple when he was spotted by the fascists shouting “what are you looking for here, you know there is no place for you in this hood”. The fascists hunted the two couples down P. Tsaldari street towards Gr. Lampraki avenue, where from another street, a new group of around 10 fascists came out and surrounded the guys. At that time, a car driving opposite in a one-way street, stopped. The driver came out and stabbed Killah P once in the heart and once in the abdomen (the stabbing on his abdomen had an upside-down “L” shape).

The whole scene took place in the presence of DIAS motorbike police, that only afterwards and only as soon as most of the fascists had already dispersed, arrested the murderer (according to some witnesses Killah P while still in shock kept pointing at the murderer and this is how the cops arrested him – a 55 year old holding a knife, described by other eye-witnesses as a known Golden Down associate). The ambulance took 35 minutes to arrive and Pavlos was pronounced dead at Nikaia general hospital.

A gathering was called on the spot of his assassination yesterday for 6pm – 60, P. Tsaldari street. There were also calls for demonstrations across Thessaloniki. Coverage on these demonstrations can be found at the Occupied London blog.

It is hardly surprising that the Greek police, once again, did nothing to prevent Golden Dawn Nazi violence, near the spot where a few days ago 8 members of the communist party (KKE) were also brutally assaulted by Golden Dawn Nazis. Golden Dawn is largely supported by Greek capitalists, the government and the church and is a willful thug against militants, workers and the poor. More than half of the police vote for this openly neo-Nazi party.

The near silence of the mass media is hardly surprising , who are kept alive due to the government’s vast loans and benefits. They chose to mention the assassination as a “fight after an argument about football” or to not mention it at all. They are the same mass media that promote every misanthropic Golden Dawn activity as an “opposition to the system’s flaws”, and lately as a realistic government partner for the future. They are of course the voice of their owners, the same few families of capitalists, owners of a shitload of shipping, banks and hotels that support the right-wing government and its thuggish little counterpart on the streets, the Golden Dawn, in what they see as a Golden opportunity to get rid of workers rights and turn Greece into a proper labour camp under the nationalist and religious kitsch.

Further reports on the murder from Occupied London and Contra-Info. Original Report above from Indymedia, Athens.