Savas Mihail Matsas (or Savas Michael Matsas or Savas Michael-Matsas; ; born Sabetai Benaki Matsas (Σαμπετάι Μπενάκη Μάτσας), 1947,

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) is a Greek Jewish intellectual, leader of the

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. He is an antizionist and internationalist author of a considerable work of culture about literature, philosophy, religion and

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Political prosecution

In 2009, the far-right Golden Dawn party filed, before the Greek justice, many documents against several left-wing Greek authors. The police wanted to interrogate all of them, but they jointly agreed not to appear in court and jointly signed a document stating they legally rejected the accusations. After reviewing the documentation, two of them were brought to justice by the Attorney General: Savas Matsas and Constantin Motzouri, the former rector of the

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. There was an international petition in his defence. On 4 September 2013, an Athens court acquitted Matsas and Moutzouris of all charges. http://www.eek.gr/index.php/englishtext/1856-the-trial-of-september-3-4-against-the-eek EEK statement following their acquittal

Works

*''Figures du Messianique'' (1999) (a compilation of essays published in that year) *''Golem: A propos du sujet et d'autres fantômes'' (2010)

References

Links

Fascism in Europe. Lecture of Savas Matsas (Greece)
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