(Reuters) -
At least two people were killed in a drive-by shooting outside the offices of Greece 's far-right Golden Dawn party in Athens
The attack
comes amid a crackdown by the government on the party after a self-proclaimed
Golden Dawn sympathizer stabbed an anti-fascism rapper to death in September.
Golden
Dawn, Greece's third most popular party according to opinion polls, said on its
website that the victims were aged 20 and 23 years old. Police had not yet
verified their identities and details on the shooting were not immediately
available.
The party
rose from obscurity on an anti-immigrant and anti-austerity agenda to enter
parliament for the first time last year. Its banner features a swastika-like
emblem and its leader has denied the Holocaust took place but the group says it
is not neo-Nazi.
It denies
accusations of violence and involvement in the rapper's killing.
The party's
leader, Nikolaos Mihaloliakos, and two senior lawmakers were ordered detained
last month pending their trial on charges of belonging to a criminal group.
(Reporting
by Karolina Tagaris; Editing by Alison Williams)
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