Attorney Eleftheria Elfie Tompatzoglou’s lifelong fight against fascism is culminating in Greece’s trial of the century. Shortly after midnight on Sept. 18, 2013, members of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn accosted Pavlos Fyssas and his friends in an Athens suburb. Fyssas’ friends got away, but the anti-fascist rapper was chased down and murdered by Giorgos Roupakias, a professed member of Golden Dawn. “I thought the killing was going to trigger a civil war,” says Tompatzoglou, one of three attorneys representing the Fyssas family. “There was no way anti-fascist groups were going to let this go.” And she's leading the fight. |