Christos Pappas (

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: Χρήστος Παππάς; born 1962,

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) is a

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, convicted criminal and a former deputy leader of the

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for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.

Criminal conviction

After a trial lasting five years, on 22 October 2020, Pappas was sentenced to 13 years and 3 months in prison for administrating a criminal organization. As the Greek Police were not able to track him, it was thought that he may have fled abroad and a European arrest warrant was issued. On 1 July 2021, however, he was arrested at an apartment in Central Athens,

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. Police also arrested a woman on the charge of offering shelter to the wanted criminal.

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