THE panel of three judges in the five-and-a-half-year Golden Dawn trial were in the final stages of determining sentences on Tuesday night after convicting the 68 defendants a week ago.

They had heard the sentencing proposal of state prosecutor Adamantia Economou and representations from lawyers for the members of the neonazi party convicted of crimes including murder, attempted murder, and membership and direction of a mafia-type organisation. 

Ms Economou, whose role is to represent the state not the victims in the process, proposed sentences ranging from life imprisonment for Giorgos Roupakias for the 2013 murder of anti-racist rapper Pavlos Fyssas; through 13 years for Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos and six other “directors of the criminal organisation”; to seven years for the “members of the criminal organisation.”