ATHENS
(Reuters) - A brazen drive-by shooting that killed two young members of
Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party has shocked Greeks and prompted
soul-searching about whether the crisis-hit country is slipping into a
"cycle of violence". Greece's
anti-terrorism force is investigating whether Friday's rush hour shooting
outside the party's offices in Athens was retaliation for a fatal stabbing of
an anti-fascism rapper by a Golden Dawn supporter in September, police said.
Rapper
Pavlos Fissas's death sparked protests across Greece and a government crackdown
on Golden Dawn, which is widely considered neo-Nazi and is blamed for attacks
against migrants. "We cannot let
this cycle of violence continue," Makis Voridis, a senior lawmaker in
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's New Democracy party, told Mega TV. "This
must end here." "Twelve
bullets against democracy," top-selling daily Ta Nea wrote on its front
page on Saturday. "The double cold-blooded murder was a coarse provocation
against stability."....To Read More....
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