Greek far-right MP arrested, investigated for treason over coup remark

Reuters Staff

ATHENS (Reuters) - A lawmaker from Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn was arrested on Friday after calling for a military coup and a prosecutor ordered an investigation into whether his tirade amounted to high treason, judicial and police sources said.

Konstantinos Barbarousis was taking part in a debate on a no-confidence motion brought against the leftist-led government by the conservative opposition over a landmark deal reached this week with neighboring Macedonia on its name.

Under the deal, to be signed on June 17, the ex-Yugoslav republic will be known as the “Republic of North Macedonia” after decades of talks over its name. The deal must still be approved by both parliaments and in Macedonia by a referendum.

“The dismemberment of Greece has begun,” Barbarousis said, in heated remarks that sparked outrage in the assembly.

“As the country’s political leadership is not legislating in the nation’s interests but in its own interests, I call on the country’s military leadership to respect its oath and to arrest Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, (Defence Minister) Panos Kammenos and (President) Prokopis Pavlopoulos to avert this treason.”

Golden Dawn condemned Barbarousis’s comments and expelled him. The party was banned from participating in the debate.

Judicial authorities did not need parliament’s permission to lift the lawmaker’s immunity for the alleged offense, the prosecutor said.

Athens says its neighbor’s use of the name Macedonia implies territorial claims on a northern Greek province of the same name and also amounts to appropriation of Greece’s ancient heritage. Macedonia is the birthplace of Alexander the Great.

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Hamas now turning Malaysia into operations base

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Hear the name Hamas and locations such as Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank come to mind.

Now, the organization, which multiple nations recognize as a terror group, is showing influence in a new place: Malaysia, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

The Investigative Project on Terror says Hamas "has a significant presence in Malaysia and routinely recruits Palestinians studying there to launch terrorist attacks against Israel."

One Hamas operative captured during the 2014 Israel-Gaza war "told Israeli authorities that he, along with nine others, received paragliding training in Malaysia from members of Hamas' military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades."

The report said the plan was for them to paraglide into Israel and launch an attack.

"Malaysia turns a blind eye to Hamas-related terrorist activity on its soil and anti-Semitism runs rife among the country's top leadership," IPT reported, including Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who is reported to have said he was "glad to be labeled anti-Semitic."

Mohamad pointed out at one meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference that "1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews."

Malaysian Hamas backers also have connections to the United States, the report said.

"For example, former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, is a senior fellow at Georgetown's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Ibrahim, who was recently released from prison where he was held on sodomy charges, helped found Malaysia's Islamic youth movement, ABIM."

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