The report says Pappas adopted the 2 journalists towards the exit and twice hit Yiannopoulos from behind, knocking him to the bottom.
The two journalists stated they returned to the bar, and because the Greeks tried to depart they ran into Pappas, who threatened them. An hour later Pappas despatched apologies by textual content message and tried to achieve the journalist by cellphone, however he didn’t reply.
Yiannopoulos filed a criticism with native police.
POLITICO reached out to Pappas, however he didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Syriza President Socrates Famellos subsequently expelled Pappas from the get together’s European Parliament group and requested that Syriza’s ethics committee additionally expel him from the broader ranks, in keeping with a senior Syriza official.
“This incident follows earlier situations of contemptuous and aggressive conduct by the MEP in query, with many alternative victims, which his get together selected to silence and canopy up,” authorities spokesman Pavlos Marinakis stated. “He needed to resort to bodily violence in order that Syriza could be pressured to expel him.”
Thomas Shannon, spokesperson for The Left group within the European Parliament, to which Syriza belongs, stated: “We take allegations of violence extraordinarily significantly and we’re conscious that the member has been expelled from the Syriza delegation. A proper process … has been launched to take a remaining choice on the involved MEP’s place in The Left group within the European Parliament.”
