Dozens of citizens are flocking to the memorial of Pavlos Fyssas, who was murdered on the evening of September 17, 2013 near his home in Keratsini. The main street bearing his name has been blocked off, while a march towards the center of Piraeus is expected.
Dimitris Koutsoumpas at Pavlos Fyssas memorial
With raised fist, Communist Party general secretary Dimitris Koutsoumpas stood before the memorial of Pavlos Fyssas, paying tribute to the murdered activist and artist. “Understand fascism deeply, it won’t die alone, crush it,” he said, invoking lyrics from Fontas Ladis’s song, speaking with harsh words against the convicted Golden Dawn members. He characterized them as the dregs of history.
Metro stations closed due to Pavlos Fyssas murder commemorations
By police order, the “Korydallos” and “Maniatika” metro stations have been closed since 3:30 PM due to gatherings for the “black” anniversary marking 12 years since Pavlos Fyssas‘s murder. According to STASY updates, trains will pass through these stations without stopping.
Traffic restrictions in Nikaia and Keratsini
Due to commemorative events for Pavlos Fyssas in Nikaia and Keratsini today, Thursday September 18, 2025, between 2:00 PM and 11:00 PM, vehicle stopping and parking is prohibited on roads and avenues in the municipalities of Nikaia – Ag. I. Rentis and Keratsini – Drapetsona as follows:
- Salaminos Avenue, from Gr. Labraki Avenue to Akropoleos Street,
- P. Rallis Avenue, between Akropoleos and Tzavella Streets,
- P. Fyssas Street, between Gr. Labraki Avenue and Salaminos Avenue,
- Tzavella Street, between P. Rallis Avenue and Ilioupoleos Street,
- Ilioupoleos Street, between Tzavella and Gervasiou Grevenon Streets,
- Karakoulouksi Street, between Tzavella and Gervasiou Grevenon Streets.
Authorities urge drivers to avoid parking their vehicles on the above streets during the specified time period and to follow the signals and directions of traffic police for better service and to avoid additional traffic problems.
Pavlos Fyssas: Timeline of the murder on September 17
Pavlos Fyssas was with friends at a local café watching a football match. A seemingly minor altercation with other café patrons became the pretext for calling reinforcements from Golden Dawn members. Within a short time, approximately 40-50 people, organized as an “assault squad,” headed to Panagi Tsaldari Street.
The group surrounded Fyssas and his companions. In this climate of terror, Giorgos Roupakias arrived by car, parked backwards on the road and approached the musician. With three stab wounds – one to the thigh and two to the chest – he took his life. Fyssas, before losing consciousness, pointed out the perpetrator to police, who was arrested on the spot. A short time later, at Nikaia General State Hospital, his death was confirmed.
Rapper Pavlos Fyssas (stage name Killah P) was murdered in Keratsini by Giorgos Roupakias, a Golden Dawn member, after receiving knife wounds to his chest and thigh. While still conscious, he pointed out the attacker to police, who was subsequently arrested and confessed to the crime.
The bloody incident
On September 17, 2013, Pavlos Fyssas, accompanied by his partner, was at a café with 8-10 other people watching a football match. At the same café was another group of two or three people. According to the preliminary investigation, tension arose between the two groups. Subsequently, the second group began calling for reinforcements. A member of the second group was Ioannis Aggos, security chief of Golden Dawn’s Nikaia Local Organization, who, according to his testimony to investigators, called his hierarchical superior, head of political action for the TO Kazantzoglou, and informed him about Fyssas and his group’s presence at the café. According to Golden Dawn’s Nikaia cell leader Giorgos Patelis, Kazantzoglou called him a few minutes later. Around 11:30 PM, Patelis sent via computer to mobile phones of Golden Dawn members from Nikaia the written message: “Everyone to local now. Those who are nearby. We won’t wait for distant ones. Now.”
From 11:26 PM to 11:50 PM, Patelis communicated by phone seven times with Golden Dawn MP and Piraeus regional governor Giannis Lagos. In a speech at the Nikaia TO offices in summer 2012, Patelis informed the assembled Golden Dawn members that only if he received Lagos’s approval would he send written messages to form a group of Golden Dawn members who would go “clean up” the festival at Nikaia’s Panagitsa, saying “nothing will be left standing. Nothing! Whatever moves, gets slaughtered.”
Fyssas was transferred to Nikaia General State Hospital, where his death was confirmed. Around 10 AM the day after the murder, police searches were conducted in the presence of prosecutors and Golden Dawn MPs at Golden Dawn offices on Mesogeion Avenue, as well as at Larissa station and other areas of Attica. At the premises of Golden Dawn’s local organization offices in Piraeus, a collapsible baton was found and their supervisor was arrested under the flagrant procedure for violating weapons laws.
At the Golden Dawn trial, 69 defendants were tried, including local organization members, executives, former MPs and Golden Dawn general secretary Nikos Michaloliakos, charged with directing or joining a criminal organization under Article 187 of the Greek Penal Code. A total of 18 defendants had been elected as MPs with Golden Dawn in June 2012 and were additionally charged with directing a criminal organization.
