Greek publisher found guilty of defamation and his newspaper condemned for contributing deliberately to “rhetoric of hate” against Greek Jews
A court in Greece has found a newspaper publisher of guilty of defamation in connection with an editorial column that used antisemitic tropes.
The Athens court imposed a fine of £1,660 on Stefanos Chios, the publisher of the Makeleio newspaper, for a 2017 article about Minos Moissis, a former President of the Jewish Community of Athens.
The court stated that, in addition to defaming Moissis personally, the paper “contributed deliberately” to the production of “a rhetoric of hate against Greek Jewry.” .
Greece’s central Board of Jewish Communities announced the findings in a statement on Tuesday.
Moissis filed a lawsuit against Mr Chios three years ago.
The 2017 article read: “A crude Jew who runs a loan-shark firm has bought the debts of poor Greeks. The President of the Jewish Community who pretends to be our friend, is stealing our money through the back door.”
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