The neo-Nazi party´s Athens offices have shut, the removal vans have gone. Greeks embrace the end of an era of rageFor years the five-storey building at 131 Mesogeion Avenue embodied the success of Golden Dawn, the neo-Nazi party that took Greece, and Europe, by storm. Today, its tattered flag, broken signage and shuttered doors have come to tell another story: of Golden Dawn´s rise and fall on the back of rage and economic crisis, hate-mongering, murder and crime. `The people put them in, the people threw them out,` says Giorgos Mavroeidis, the manager of a health-appliance shop two stores down. `We got used to the rallies in the end but they were extremists to be sure,` he says of the black-clad staff and supporters who would frequent the building, the party´s national headquarters. `It´s strange to think of us being so close to them now.` Related: `Their ideas had no place here`: how Crete kicked out Golden Dawn Where once we had spoken of its rise, we can now speak of its fall. Golden Dawn is in its last throes Related: Greek Golden Dawn member arrested over murder of leftwing hip-hop artist Continue reading...
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