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| - A foreign press correspondent was attacked on Sunday during a far-right protest in central Athens against the presence of migrants in Greece, according to Greek news agency ANA. According to an AFP reporter and a video broadcast by Skai TV, the victim, working for French and German media, Thomas Jacobi, was left with facial bleeding after the attack. Jacobi collaborated with journalist Angelique Kourounis for "The Golden Dawn: A Personal Affair" documentary in 2016. "They were hitting me for four and a half minutes until some policemen appeared. None stepped in. That's the most shocking thing", Jacobi told the Proto Thema website. "I thought that with so many policemen there I could have done my job today. I was wrong again," he said, adding he felt lucky for not being attacked with a knife. "They attacked me because they recognized me. We have done the Golden Dawn documentary with Angelique Kourounis", Jacobi explained. This is the second assault against Jacobi. On 20 January 2019, along with a cameraman and a photojournalist, he was attacked by members of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn in Athens. The three journalists were covering a protest held outside the Greek parliament building about the renaming of North Macedonia. According to the Greek police around 370 people rioted at Syntagma Square on Saturday. They held aloft banners against the "colonisation of Greece by Islamists". Golden Dawn members were also present. Athens News Agency reported Jacobi as saying he will file a lawsuit. "Golden Dawners, no matter how hard you hit us, no matter if you are stealing our phones and recorders as you have done today, when ten of you attacked us and especially Thomas, we won't back down. Our correspondences will be sent and the streets will be ours," Kourounis said in a tweet. Greek government spokesman, Stelios Petsas condemned "the fascist attack" on Jacobi and said the authorities were investigating. The Foreign Press Association of Greece (FPA) also condemned the attack and urged the authorities to take all actions they could to identify the culprits. "The existence of organised hit squads at the fringes of rallies aiming to intimidate journalists that are not of their liking can't be tolerated," the FPA stated. str-kan/chv/cdw
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