ATHENS: A Greek conservative lawmaker suffered a beating at the hands of suspected far-right activists during a protest in Athens on Thursday, his party said.
George Koumoutsakos, 54, suffered facial bruises but did not need to be hospitalised.
Speaking in parliament shortly after the incident, the New Democracy lawmaker accused neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn of being behind the attack.
"Those who did it...are those who have committed murder, they are the purveyors of racism, xenophobia and what is most extreme in the political and social life of the country," he said.
Leading members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party are currently on trial for allegedly instigating the murder of leftist rapper Pavlos Fyssas two years ago.
Several Golden Dawn lawmakers were present at Thursday's protest.
Skai TV showed Koumoutsakos, a former diplomat and ex-foreign ministry spokesman, being struck by several people outside parliament as riot police stood by.
He is then seen being helped to safety.
No arrests were made.
The New Democracy party said Koumoutsakos had been beaten by "fascists" and that another of its lawmakers, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, narrowly escaped being attacked.
The protest by Black Sea Greeks was sparked after Education Minister Nikos Filis earlier this week said mass killings of the minority committed by Turkish forces in the early 20th century did not qualify as a genocide.
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