Konstantinos Plevris, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Greek attorney of law of the Greek Supreme Court and far right author and philosopher
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Place of Birth: Athens, Attica Region, Greece
About Konstantinos Plevris
- Konstantinos A.
- Plevris (Greek: ???sta?t???? ?.
- ??e????; born 1939 in Athens), known sometimes in English as Constantine Plevris or Kostas Plevris, is a Greek politician, lawyer and far right author.
- A prolific writer, over the course of decades he has authored a number of books and other texts relating to Greek history, Greek culture, sociology, and politics, with a clear nationalist, homophobic (such as his book titled "?? ???a?d??", a vehement polemic against homosexuals) content.
- In his book The Jews: The Whole Truth he described himself as a “Nazi, fascist, racist, anti-democrat, anti-Semite.” He was the founder and leader of the Metaxist 4th of August Party and Front Line, with the former political party not only playing a significant role in influencing and shaping the future direction of the Greek extreme right, but also standing in its own right as a prominent pre-junta political movement in general.
- He has also cooperated (according to interviews he gave to various publications, including one to Italian magazine L'Europeo in 1976, which were quoted and accepted as proof in a court of law where he was the plaintiff against author Nikos Kleitsikas) with various European neo-fascist groups (including the Ordine Nuovo), and figures such as Pino Rauti, Pino Romualdi, Giorgio Almirante, and others of the same ilk.
- He later briefly joined the right-wing party Popular Orthodox Rally, as its leading candidate in the 2004 elections.
- He is father of Thanos Plevris, former member of the Greek parliament with the Popular Orthodox Rally party. In December 2007, Plevris was initially found guilty of inciting racial hatred by a Greek court based on excerpts and quotations in his book The Jews: The Whole Truth.
- He appealed the court ruling and on 27 March 2009 the court of appeals overturned the ruling of incitement with 4-1 votes.
- Plevris was cleared on the charge of having caused violence by the 5-member court, but it was noted that he was a Holocaust denier.
- The court justified his acquittal by saying that ""The defendant does not revile the Jews solely because of their racial and ethnic origin, but mainly because of their aspirations to world power, the methods they use to achieve these aims, and their conspiratorial activities." The ruling prompted some charges of miscarriage of justice.
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