The leaders of the far-right Golden Dawn, once Greece's third largest political party, were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for running a criminal gang linked with hate crimes during the country's worst economic crisis in decades.
Golden Dawn entered parliament for the first time in 2012 at the peak of the crisis on a fiercely anti-immigrant platform, tapping into Greeks' anger over painful austerity measures and what many saw as a corrupt and cosy political establishment.
[https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/14/europe/greek-far-right-leaders-jailed-intl/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/14/europe/greek-far-right-leaders-jailed-intl/index.html)