Members of the Macedonian party Rainbow atacked in Athens

Dozens of activists of the Greek right wings fascist movement Hrisi Avgi (Golden Dawn) provoked heavy incident during the promotion of the Greek - Macedonian dictionary organized by the political party of the Macedonian minority in Greece Rainbow. Thirty minutes after the beginning of the promotion of the dictionary the group of masked persons with emblems of Hrisi Avgi entered the Pres Center of the foreign correspondents in Athens, located nearby the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and verbally attacked the promoters. They have damaged the equipment of the present cameraman’s and destroyed the promotional materials of the Rainbow party. No one was injured after the head of the attackers asked the group not to start fight but to pressure the participants to leave the event. The group which is considered to be extreme wing of the National Orthodox political movement/party LAOS lead by the fascist Jorgos Karadzaferis , have left the site after the information that the police is approaching the international press centre in Athens. The members of Rainbow continued the promotion but left the site after coming of the Police and after they got an information that another group of Greek right wings activist are preparing attacks against them . The promotion of the Greek Macedonian dictionary with 15,000 words prepared by the Macedonian outhor Vasko Karadza is part of the campaign for the Election for europarlament to be held on Suday July 7 2009.