ATHENS (Reuters) - The leader of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party was sent to jail pending trial on criminal charges on Thursday in a boost to a government campaign to wipe out what it calls "a neo-Nazi criminal gang".
Nikolaos Mihaloliakos is the first elected party chief in Greece to be sent to jail since a military coup in 1967. The grey-haired, bespectacled leader has watched support for his party wane after one of its supporters killed a popular rapper.
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