The ultranationalist Golden Dawn party leader and members are on trial on Tuesday, appearing before the Criminal Appeals Court at a makeshift courtroom at Korydallos prison.

Korydallos Mayor Stavros Kassimatis called for the trial to take place elsewhere as local residents object to the trial in their area.

The most serious charge, beyond homicide and attempted homicide, involves an indictment for establishing and being a member of a criminal organization, something that investigating magistrates and prosecutors maintain that GD actually comprises in the form of a violent neo-Nazi network.