Sorras charged with hate crimes by prosecutor

An Athens first-instance prosecutor yesterday leveled hate crime charges against self-proclaimed “trillionaire” and leader of the nationalist Convention of Greeks movement Artemis Sorras, over comments made last year disparaging the disabled.

The case against the controversial figure – who claims to have enough money to pay off Greece’s public debt and all the debts of Greek households – concerns comments Sorras made in an interview on September 8, 2016, to the Rizopoulos Post website, in which he said that “it is an insult to the Olympic Games to have disabled people doing Paralympics.”