Adhering to a marathon trial long lasting five-and-a-50 percent a long time, an Athens court docket considered that crimes by Golden Dawn customers including murder, attempted murder, assault and possession of weapons were not the steps of folks functioning on their possess initiative. Instead they ended up straight planned and requested by a get together leadership that used violence to eradicate perceived enemies. Eighteen former bash lawmakers, including chief Nikos Michaloliakos, a holocaust denier who founded Golden Dawn in the 1980s as a neo-Nazi organization, ended up among individuals discovered guilty on Wednesday. Unique sentences are to be announced in the coming days. There was a powerful police existence all…