The last three articles of the storm-tossed anti-racism bill passed through Parliament on Tuesday in a roll call vote where received clear majorities from the 100 MPs of Parliament’s summer session. The separate voting process of articles 1,2 and 3 was requested by SYRIZA and Golden Down, last week.
Under a respectively inflexible framework, the new bill toughens criminal sanctions for individuals and political parties that engage in racism or incite racist violence, calling for prison sentences of up to three years and heavy financial penalties. The bill also criminalizes denial of any cases of genocide recognized by international courts or decisions in the Greek Parliament, including the Holocaust and the mass killings of Armenians, Christians in Asia Minor and the Black Sea Greeks.