Angeliki, Athens, Greece, @kellykaramousali - ‘I got to the protest around 10am. Roads closed, thousands of protesters, people of all ages, walking, holding banners, chanting: ‘’They are not innocent!’’. We were all there to support the family of Pavlos Fyssas, a 34-year-old musician whose life was taken unfairly in 2013. His death set in motion the trial against Greece’s largest fascist group, Golden Dawn. At around 11:30 am, unanimous convictions from the members of the court were announced, including the recognition of Golden Dawn as a criminal organization. The crowd of 20,000 protesters started cheering and chanting once again, filled with pure joy.
I could not reach the court through the crowd, but once people began cheering/yelling louder and louder, the police gathered and threw tear gas into the crowd, causing a riot between them and certain groups of people that in return threw molotovs. I quickly left at that point, as did most of the protesters. When I got home, I watched online the reaction of Pavlos’ mother as she stepped outside the court room, screaming with tears in her eyes that her son had finally won.'
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