By Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Monika Pronczuk

April 27, 2021Updated 8:40 a.m. ET

BRUSSELS — The convicted Greek neo-Nazi Ioannis Lagos was stripped of his immunity as a member of the European Parliament on Tuesday, clearing the way for his extradition to Greece months after he was sentenced in a landmark trial.

Mr. Lagos was a leading member of the criminal organization Golden Dawn. The group is now defunct, but in its heyday, it formed a political party that was the third-largest in the Greek Parliament.

He told The New York Times in written comments this year that he was planning to flee to a “European country” where his rights would be protected, but on Tuesday, the Brussels public prosecutor’s office said that Mr. Lagos “was deprived of his liberty today at midday.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/world/europe/ioannis-lagos-golden-dawn-immunity.html