Kasidiaris: It was all staged to provoke me

Despite the end of the in flagrante process on midnight Friday for what happened on Thursday morning on ANT1 with his brutal attack on Liana Kanellis and Rena Dourou, Golden Dawn spokesman Elias Kasidiaris, has not presented himself to the prosecutor.

In fact he issued the following statement:

"The events that took place last Thursday morning on ANT1 were staged with the sole purpose of provoking an extreme reaction on my part. I personally regret that - against my own will - I got involved in an attempt to mislead the public opinion, whose main purpose was to undermine Golden Dawn in a political way.

I was surprised by the immediate sensitization of certain judicial officers in television time, and the mass mobilization of police, whose luxury of intervention is denied to Greek citizens on a daily basis. I was not surprised by the provocative behavior of specific well known journalists and publishers who did not hesitate to demand and herald my prosecution, even before it was decided by the relevant authorities.

Justice should and must remain calm, away from instructors and their agents, from foreign interests and political considerations. I chose to remain silent for 48 hours because I did not want to give the pleasure to TV stations of pilloring me again, showing me with handcuffs at the courts. I will visit the prosecutor quite soon, to sue the physical and ethical instigators of any illegal acts against me in the last two days.

Above all, however, I lean on the irrefutable judgment of the Greek people. A people who, by ignoring the filthy propaganda of the entire system, stand now even more heavily on the side of the Greek Nationalists of the Golden Dawn."