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Its storm troops may be mostly working-class Muslims, but it enjoys considerable, if mostly tacit, sympathy in high places.

According to war reports, Katriuk was a member of a Ukrainian battalion of the SS, the elite Nazi storm troops, between 1942 and 1944.

Responding to the charges against him behind closed doors, Kasidiaris denied before the magistrate that the party had paramilitary-like "storm troops" trained by him, a court official said on condition of anonymity.

Kasidiaris denied before the magistrate that the party had paramilitary-like "storm troops" which he trained, the court official said on condition of anonymity.

All the storm troops, including the guards, were in brand-new uniforms.