The country hopes for epoch-defining catharsis this week as five-year trial of neo-fascist party concludes
There are few moments in a nation’s history when one decision can heal the wrongs of the past. But in Greece there is mounting hope that a panel of three judges will do just that when at 11am on Wednesday they deliver judgment on Golden Dawn, the neo-fascist party that took Europe by storm at the height of the country’s economic crisis.
“It will be good for the mental health of Greece,” said the leftwing writer Dimitris Psarras whose dogged investigations into the ultra-nationalist force helped expose its sinister ideology and embrace of violence. “We’re all looking towards three people to do what is right to protect democracy.”
