Parliament VP's driver fired for Golden Dawn ties

One of those pictured is Stylianos Gialelis, who works as a driver for Ioannis Tragakis, one of the parliament's vice presidents. When a photo of GD members performing a standard Nazi salute was leaked to the press, he became political ping pong.

Accused Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris was the one who gave Gialelis up when the photo appeared. It shows four people, one of them in a Santa Claus costume, standing in front of a Christmas tree doing a Nazi salute.

Kasidiaris revealed that the one standing in the back of the photo is actually Tragakis' driver. The parliament VP responded immediately, announcing he was sacking the employee. He added that, according to the driver's statement, he was not a GD member, just a sympathizer, with friends in the party.

Kasidiaris' “revelation” was but a way to score political points, leading the conversation to what the party keeps claiming as “a plot to eliminate GD for political reasons”. Tragakis' automatic response, on the other hand, was eqaully politically motivated, in an attempt to show “resolve” in matters of undemocratic behavior.