Greece's Golden Dawn Leaders to Be Charged with Organized Crime

Far right, fascist political party accused of essentially running a military cell

One word leaps out at you from the seven page Greek indictment document against Golden Dawn. It is "fuhrerprinzip" - the leader principle, spelled out in Roman type.

Since Saturday, Greek anti-terror police have arrested six of the far-right party's MPs and 16 activists, who they will charge on Tuesday, collectively, with organised crime.

Key to the prosecution is the argument that the party's leaders controlled a military-style cell structure, that they trained attack groups, and that it was the political leadership - the MPs themselves - who controlled the apparatus of violence.

Nothing happened without orders, and orders were followed rigidly, say prosecutors - as with Adolf Hitler's "fuhrerprinzip".