Police in northern Greece detain 57-year-old neurologist for inciting racial hatred, weapons possession. Man acknowledges he is a member of extreme right Golden Dawn party.

Police in northern Greece say a 57-year-old neurologist has been arrested for inciting racial hatred and weapons possession.

The doctor, who has been named, has acknowledged he is a member of the extreme right Golden Dawn party.

Police intervened when informed that the doctor had put a plaque outside his office which said, in German, “Jews Not Welcome.”

A search at the doctor’s house retrieved 12 knives and three daggers, two inscribed with Nazi symbols, as well as pills without a prescription.

Golden Dawn, a formerly marginal Nazi-inspired party, entered Greek parliament at the last election in 2012 on an anti-immigrant platform.

Fifty-Seven-year-old Greek doctor, Costas Kastaniotis was convicted to a 16-month prison term and a 3 year suspension because he violated the anti-racism law. In particular, he was accused of putting a sign up outside his office that read “Jews not welcome.” Mr. Kastaniotis was also convicted of unlawful possession of weapons and the court fined him 2,500 euros.

The Greek Police raided Kastaniotis house and found daggers with Nazi symbols, a Nazi flag and printed material from the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. Kastaniotis, who is a neurologist, refused that he was the one to have put up the sign which was written in German. He also insisted that he took it down when it was brought to his attention. He was sentenced to a 12-month prison term for violating the anti-racism law, 4-months for unlawful possession of weapons and suspended for three years. He appealed against the court’s decision and was set free pending the appeals hearing. During the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Jewish community of Thessaloniki was wiped out when the 96 percent of its population of 50,000 perished in the concentration camps.