Konstantinos PlevrisKonstantinosA. Plevris (Greek: ., born 1939 in Athens), in English sometimesConstantine Plevris or Kostas Plevris, is a Greek attorneyof law of the Greek Supreme Court and far right au-thor. A prolic writer, over the course of decades hehasauthoredanumberofbooksandothertextsre-lating to Greek history,Greek culture,sociology,andpolitics, with a clear nationalist, homophobic (such as hisbook titled"", a vehement polemic againsthomosexuals) content. He was the founder and leaderof two nationalist parties, 4th of August and Front Line,with the former political party not only playing a sig-nicant role in inuencing and shaping the future direc-tion of the Greek extreme right, but also standing in itsown right as a prominent pre-junta political movementin general. He has also cooperated (according to inter-views he gave to various publications, including one toItalian magazine L'Europeo in 1976, which were quotedand accepted as proof in a court of law where he wasthe plainti against author Nikos Kleitsikas) with vari-ous European neo-fascist groups (including the OrdineNuovo), and gures such as Pino Rauti, Pino Romualdi,Giorgio Almirante, and others of the same ilk.He laterbriey joined the right-wing populist party Popular Or-thodox Rally, as its leading candidate in the 2004 elec-tions. He hosts the weekly television show Edo Ellas( in Greek) on the EXTRA-3 channel, andwas the host of Istorikes Mnimes ( )on TeleAsty, KaratzaferisTV channel. He is fatherof Thanos Plevris, former member of the Greek parlia-ment with the nationalist-populist party Popular Ortho-dox Rally.In December 2007, Plevris was initially found guilty ofinciting racial hatred by a Greek court based on excerptsand quotations in his book The Jews: The Whole Truth.He appealed the court ruling and on 27 March 2009 thecourt of appeals overturned the ruling of incitement with4-1 votes. Plevris was cleared on the charge of havingcaused violence by the 5-member court, but it was notedthat he was a Holocaust denier. The ruling promptedsome charges of miscarriage of justice.[1][2][3][4][5]1 Education and academic back-groundPlevris graduatedfromthe Lyce Lonin( ). He received his de-greeinLawfromtheAristotleUniversityof Thes-saloniki (. ), his degree in Po-liticalScience from the Panteion University (), and his degree in Sociology fromFrance( ). As a professor, he taught politicalsociologyandpsychological warfareat theSchool ofPoliceOcers() and the Faculty of General EducationoftheHellenicArmyGeneral Sta( ). ThoughPlevrisnolongerteachesinanyacademic institutions, he claims he was proclaimed anhonoraryprofessor of theUniversidadAutnomadeGuadalajara (for which he claims to have written severalpapers on the subject of ancient Greece, although no sci-entic library or archive seems to have them in its list-ings).2 Controversy2.1 Terrorism chargesIn 1977, Plevris was brought up on charges of incitementof terrorist activities (bombing attacks), along withAristotelis Kalentzis, who was accused of being the per-petrator of these acts. Plevris claimed that Kalentzis wasnever a member of his 4th of August Party and admit-ted that he informed the authorities of weapons and ex-plosives possessed by Kalentzis. Plevris was cleared ofthe incitement charges, while Kalentzis was sentenced to12 years in prison; this caused Kalentzis to write severalbooks accusing Plevris of being a para-state agent and asnitch that framed him.[6]2.2 Lawsuit against Nikos KleitsikasNikos Kleitsikas, in his 2000 bookTheGreekStudentMovement inItaly,claimed that Plevris was a CIA orMossad agent during the Cold War and participated inbombings. Plevris successfully sued Nikos Kleitsikasand the publisher of the book,Aggelos Sideratos,forlibel in the summer of 2006. The Greek court of ap-peals vindicated him and the defendants were forced topay 15,000 euros in compensation for the not well doc-umented claim that Plevris organized and participated inprovocative acts to pave the path for the coup d'tat thatbrought into power the Greek military junta of 19671974, but the court found and accepted that the defendantproved Plevris fascist leanings, as well as his connection12 2 CONTROVERSYwith European neo-fascist terrorist groups and personal-ities (such as Pino Rauti and the far-right terrorist groupOrdine Nuovo), his collaboration with the Greek juntaand his collaboration with various secret services, basedon Plevris own statements in interviews he had given.[7]Thus, his court victory was pyrrhic, as there is now a le-gal precedent that conrms his connection with all sortsof neo-fascist and terrorist groups. Also, on various oc-casions, Plevris has bragged about having been a collabo-rator of the Greek intelligence service, which was calledKYP at that time.2.3 Lawsuit over Jews: The WholeTruthKonstantinos Plevris is the author of Jews: The Wholetruth, an anti-semitic book containing outright praises forAdolf Hitler and calls for the extermination of Jews, pub-lished by Adonis Georgiades in June 2006. For this bookPlevris was indicted by the Greek district attorney oncharges of inciting racial violence.[8]Shortly after its publication the Central Board of JewishCommunities in Greece and the Greek Helsinki Mon-itor brought a suit against Plevris for insulting JewsandinjurytoJudaism. Theyalsobrought chargesagainst the newspaper Eleftheros Kosmos (published byGolden Dawn partys former second-in-command Dim-itris Zafeiropoulos), whichpublishedextracts of thebook.[9]Panagiotis Dimitras of the Greek Helsinki Monitor beganto visit the Public Prosecutors Oce of District CourtJudges on a daily basis to push the public prosecutors forlegal action against Plevris and nationalist weekly news-paper Eleftheros Kosmos, which published extracts of thebook, on charges of racism.[10] After two months, andthe support of the Central Board of Jewish Communitiesin Greece, he eventually succeeded and so, in December2006, Plevris was indicted for violation of Article 191 ofthe Penal Code, the dissemination of false news.Several weeks later Eleftheros Kosmos and Plevris learnedthat they were being taken to court under the Greek Anti-Racist Law of 1979.,[11] a fact they say they were neverinformed of, although Plevris quoted this particular lawin its entirety in his book. They held that the case shouldbe thrown out for this reason alone, although the argu-ment that one did not know the law is not acceptable in aGreek court of law.[11] Both Plevris and Eleftheros Kos-mos characterized the lawsuit as an attempt to suppressfree speech. According to Plevris, this lawsuit had no le-gal basis because it was, to quote Plevris, a violation ofarticles 320, 321 (paragraph 1), and 111 (paragraph 7) ofthe Greek Penal Code.[12] Because this is the rst timethe aforementioned lawhas ever been used in Greek judi-cial history, this law is regarded as historic by both sides.In the book, Plevris describes himself as a Nazi, fascist,racist, anti-democrat, anti-Semite (p. 600), subscribesto the myth of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (whichhe presents as authentic and valid evidence against theJews), characterizes Jewish children in the concentrationcamps as very fat and well-fed, claims that Jews aresubhuman (p. 583) mortal enemies, and criticizesthe Nazis for not ridding Europe of Jewish Zionism.In the same book,he characterizes former UN secre-tary Ko Annan as cannibal and descendant of can-nibals and states that Jews need to be rounded-up andexecuted within 24 hours, which is the only way theyunderstand (p. 742). However, Plevris contends thatOf the 1,400 pages of my large book, the condemnationencompasses only several paragraphs, of which portionswere extracted, with the result that another meaning wasgiven to the words and truth is distorted due to the alter-ation of phrases.[12]The rst hearing, which was set for 5 September 2007,was postponed until 11 September 2007.[13] The trial be-gan on 11 September 2007 but, due to time constraints, itwas again postponed, this time to 3 December 2007.[14]On the rst court date, 150 supporters, mainly from neo-Nazi and nationalist groups, attended to show moral sup-port for Plevris and Eleftheros Kosmos and over 200 po-lice ocers were stationed in the area out of fear thatthere would be clashes. However, the planned anti-fascistgathering never materialized and there were no incidents.During his trial, the following appeared to support Plevris: Christos Pasalaris and Kostas Kolmer (in addition bothwere also there as witnesses for the defense), Popular Or-thodox Rally candidate Antonis Naxakis, Maria Tzanni,Spiros Zournatzis, Giorgos Shoinas, Giorgos Palmos. Dr.Basilis Protopappas, Popular Orthodox Rally candidatesGiannis Sirros and Giannis Tsilimigras, Maria Dourakiwho was accompanied by four Old Calendarist clerics,[15]GiorgosLoentaritis, PopularOrthodoxRallymemberPanagiotis Doumas, Vasilis Misiris.[15][16]On December 13, 2007 the court found Plevris guiltyof inciting racialhatred and handed him a 14-monthsuspended sentence.His co-accused, the publisher, edi-tor and a journalist of Eleftheros Kosmos were found notguilty. Plevris condemned the verdict, stating that Jewsare trying to ght me with this trial so they can shut mymouth.[17]Plevris appealedandwas eventuallyacquittedon27March 2009; his acquittalcaused a controversy as towhether the Greek justice systemfailed to enforceGreeces antiracist legislation.[2][3][4][5]2.3.1 Counter-lawsuit over Jews: The WholeTruthInresponse topublications of Eleftherotypias Ioswhich depictsJews: TheWholeTruth as a Fascisticand anti-Semitic book and Plevris as a Fascist, Plevrislaunched a SLAPP-type libel suit against the newspaperfor the sum of 1.2 million. All four journalists of Ios3(Dimitris Trimis,Tasos Kostopoulos,Aggeliki Psarra,and Dimitris Psarras), editor-in-chief Serafeim Fintani-dis, and the papers published, were sued for 200,000euros each. The ocialcourt date has not yet beenset. Plevris also sued Panagiotis Dimitras of the GreekHelsinki Monitor for the sum of 200,000 as compen-sation for libel. The court date was set for 7 February2008.In addition, Plevris counter-sued all seven execu-tive members of the Central Board of Jewish Communi-ties in Greece for 200,000 each. The court date was setfor 24 January 2008.[18][19]As a result of the entire aair, Plevris wrote a book enti-tled The Struggle for the Truth: The Adventure of a Book,which claimed to detail the events, controversy, and cir-cumstances of the last 15 months of the aair.[20]3 WorksO (King Alexander (theGreat)"). Athens: , 2015. (The Struggle for the truth - theadventure of a book). Athens: , 2007.(The television). Athens:, 2007., (Jews, all the truth).Athens: , 2006.(Therevolution). Athens:, 2006. (*The faggots*). Athens: ,2005.21 1967 (21 April 1967, referring to 21April 1967 in Greek politics). Athens: ,2003.: (Agia Soa: National duty ofthe Greeks its liberation). Athens: ,1997.. (Monarchy) Athens: , 2004. (The Ocerand the Neo-serfs). Athens: , 2002.. (The persecution ofthe best elements of society) Athens: ,1987. (The ag). Athens: , 2004. : , (Religionandidentity: Completeandfact-supportedanalysisoftheissue, fortheinclusionof religionintheidentities, referringtothenewGreeknational identitycards whichreplaced the old national identity cards of Greecewhich included the religion of the cardholder in itsdata). Athens: , 2004. : (The people forget what left-ismmeans: texts andphotographs). Athens:, 2003. (Sociology). Athens: , 1985...()(My service at the State IntelligenceAgency).Athens: , 1989 : (The Capital-ist: A summary note for the exploiter of the hu-mans). Athens: , 1989. : . (Whoever is not Greek is a Barbar-ian)Athens: , 2003. () (Ioannis Metaxas(Biography)", referring to Ioannis Metaxas).Athens: , 1975. (Thetwenty protocols of the treason). Athens: , 1995. ! (Let us talk aboutJews!") Athens: , 1990. (Antidemocrat). 1965. (Metacommunism). 1967. (Politicalpropaganda).1968. .(The Cosmic The-ory of Nationalism) 19694 References[1] " ( 4-1) " Eleftherotypia, 31 March 2009[2] Triumph des Rassisten Sddeutsche Zeitung 30 Decem-ber 2009[3] Plevris` acquittal signals that authorities in Greece fail totake rm action to curb racism, Minority Rights GroupInternational, 17 April 20094 5 EXTERNAL LINKS[4] European Jewish Congress Calls Greek Neo-Nazis Rul-ing Miscarriage of Justice ", European Jewish Congress,7 April 2009[5] Greekcourt clearsanti-Semitewriter Press TV, 27March 2009[6] - Eleftherotypia, 23 June 1996[7] " - ;" Eleftherotypia, 16 January 2005[8] , Eleftheros Ty-pos, 21 August 2007[9] KIS Lawsuit Against Eleftheros Kosmos and Konstanti-nos Plevris, 1 August 2007[10] (Originallyretrievedandaccessed: 30August 2007)K.I.S.Lawsuit Against Eleftheros Kosmos and Kon-stantinos Plevris, 1 August 2007[11] Jews and Dimitras Try Eleftheros Kosmos, 3 September2007[12] (Originally retrieved and accessed: 30 August 2007) JewsAre Bringing Us to Court, 30 July 2007[13] (Originally retrieved and accessed: 7 September 2007)K.I.S. and E.P.S.E Postpone Trial of Eleftheros Kosmos,5 September 2007[14] The First Defeat of the Anti-Racists, 11 September2007[15] The Prosecutions of Anti-Racists Unite Nationalists, 10September 2007[16] Rendezvous Again on 3 December, 15 September 2007[17] Lawyer is sentenced for racism, Kathimerini, 14 Decem-ber 2007[18] (Originallyretrievedandaccessed: 30August 2007)Lawsuit Against Ios From Plevris, 1 April 2007[19] (Originallyretrievedandaccessed: 30August 2007)Plevris To Holy Synod: Take a Position on the Talmud,29 April 2007[20] (Originally retrieved and accessed: 30 August 2007) TheAdventure of a Book..., 9 July 20075 External linksConstantine Plevris Video ArchiveSmall Archive of Istorikes MnimesConstantine Plevris Books56 Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses6.1 Text KonstantinosPlevrisSource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantinos_Plevris?oldid=669625295Contributors: Ixfd64,Dimadick,Bearcat, Klemen Kocjancic, Rich Farmbrough, Alansohn, Woohookitty, ^demon, Pictureuploader, Ground Zero, Damac, RussBot, Elp gr,SmackBot, Kintetsubualo, Chris the speller, Critias~enwiki, Kendrick7, Yannismarou, Ravenous75, Nekohakase, CmdrObot, Porfyrios,Panosdis, Cydebot, Future Perfect at Sunrise, WilliamH, Mitsos, Odikuas, Smith2006, Magioladitis, Waacstats, Fabrictramp, ReinesLicht,MetsBot, Zacheus, Johnpacklambert, NerdyNSK, Nikosgreencookie, Gerakibot, Mr.Z-bot, Monegasque, Uoi phil pg, Puark, Pr6767d,Niceguyedc, John Nevard, NuclearWarfare, Polemos~enwiki, XLinkBot, Good Olfactory, Addbot, Gy7787, Retrospect0, Cst17, Yobot,Themfromspace, AnomieBOT, Flewis, Veni21, Thehelpfulbot, FrescoBot, BubbleBabis, IWMYS, Allinthebrain, , Tyt77r,Politeia565, Jrr56r, Nikolaos6, Gargarean, Greco22, ZroBot, ClueBot NG, Pkl50, BG19bot, Evilemperorzorg, Gh678i, Thessaloniki2,SSR990, Arcandam, GingerBreadHarlot and Anonymous: 406.2 Images6.3 Content license Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0