Police briefly detained two freshly elected Greek MPs of Golden Dawn party and its leader's daughter among six people after the attack.
The two lawmakers, Ilias Panagiotaros and Ioannis Vouldis, as well as leader Nikos Michaloliakos's daughter, were taken into custody but released for lack of evidence after the incident in Athens late Friday, the source said.
The 31-year-old Pakistani man needed hospital treatment after being assaulted by a group in helmets taking part in a motorbike demonstration "that started off from the headquarters of a political party," police said in a statement.
The source confirmed this party was Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn), which sent shockwaves through Europe by winning seats in parliament in May 6 elections for the first time since the end of Greece's military junta in 1974.
Michaloliakos, who has said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz and has questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust, is hoping to match or beat the party's score of 6.9 per cent in fresh elections on June 17.
Another Golden Dawn candidate, Themis Skordeli, has been accused of beating up, together with two other Greeks, three Afghan immigrants in Athens a year ago. A court case was recently postponed for the sixth time.
Three Greek non-governmental organisations meanwhile welcomed a report by the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) calling on Greece to act against what it said was a rising level of racism and related violence.
"Greece should strongly combat the increasing manifestations of racial discrimination, xenophobia and related violence," the three groups, including Greek Helsinki Monitor, cited the CAT report as saying.
It called on Athens to condemn publicly all intolerance and violence and send "a clear and unambiguous message that racist or discriminatory acts, including by police and other public officials, are unacceptable."
A report that 18 monitoring NGOs released in March had said that racist attacks in Greece mostly go unreported and unpunished and had published a list of 63 racist attacks in just two cities over six months.
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@OG: greek immigrants or some other european immigrants living in Pakistan
Could you please give the number of Greeks or Europeans who have emigrated to Pakistan in the last 10 years???
Or even a Bangladeshi??
Pakistan is a place where Ahmadias are not Muslims, a Shia is a kafir to a Sunni, a Sunni is a kafir to a Shia.... So, why complain of a similar treatment outside India....
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Wrong is wrong whether it happens in Pakistan or Greece. Learn to commend what is right even if your enemy does it, and condemn what is wrong even if your friend does it. . . Illogical comments by some people.
Greek language is precious. Ancient Greek literature (by Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle etc.) is precious. We should in response redouble our efforts to form friendship with not just Greece but all countries allied with Greece like Russia, France, Germany. Let us show them that we are worthy of being loved and that we are willing to change and adapt and embrace them as friends and students.
Well these guys are beating immigrants right? now can you imagine what will happen to greek immigrants or some other european immigrants living in Pakistan? they would first get kidnapped and then eventually get their head chopped off! so we as Pakistani's shouldn't really complain since there are more vicious animals in our country!
Indeed, the party "Golen Dawn" rejects the austerity measures, yet insists that Greece should stay in the Eurozone and receive bailout funds from Brussels. If the Greek people vote for this party, then they should be on their own. Greece is not indispensible in the Eurozone.
IT IS VERY SAD,INHUMANE AND ALL PAKISTANIS LIVING OVERSEAS KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE ,,SO BE IT A DISGUSTING GLARE/STARE,ATTITUDE,VERBAL OR PHYSICAL FORM OF RACIAL ABUSE ,WE KNOW IT HORRIFIC!!! WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL TO HAVE A HOMELAND WHERE WE CAN LIVE INDEPENDANTLY,FREE OF SUCH ABUSES,,RATHER LOOK WHAT WE HAVE TURNED OUR HOME INTO
@Zaid Hamid:
"Time for Radio Pakistan Athens."
You will have to begin nearer at home perhaps. The Greek architect/planner Constantin A. Doxiadis was responsible for Islamabad's planning, for which he got paid well. There was no Ten Percenter determining the costs then. Why beat up a poor Paki now, who was on his way to greener pastures? . .
@Zaid Hamid: Your words of wisdom have been missed of late.
@Adil: he only got resistance in Punjab region by a local king of Punjab known as Raja Porus or King Porus. Taxiles of Taxila and others of North West were all defeated. After his fight with Porus of Punjab he decided to go back as he cannot move forward..That is known is one of the ultimate battles in history. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ZZog59Up0
LOL....Maybe trying to get revenge for fatal injury that Alexander The Great received. He couldn't go beyond the river of Jehlum in present day Pakistan...Plus, he faced a great resistance in present day region of AfPak too and a letter that he wrote to his mother is a proof in that regard.
Time for Radio Pakistan Athens
sad
Now do not go complaining about lack of human rights, rights of minorities etc.
It is related with economic problems. Greece is facing economic problems and many are now jobless. So when they see foreigners taking their jobs so they do it like that. I think even in Pakistan in future if more Afghans will take Pakistani jobs and Pakistanis will face joblessness then it will be a natural reaction against them. One of the reason of Killing Jews during Nazism in Germany , Poland and all around Europe was the Economic reason that many believe that Jews are taking away their money and that lead to racism as well as many Jews were Not exactly White and many look middle eastern and brown so racism evolved against color as well. So i think in future when Greece's economy will be back on track then automatically racism will die with it.