[11] Manolis or Manos Kapelonis (Greek: Μανώλης or Μάνος Καπελώνης) was 22 years old, lived in Galatsi and had studied at the Athens Hellenic College.
Their deputies and officers often made speeches, and their chief texts and the parliamentary candidate in Boeotia often appeared on the official website of the Golden Dawn.
[15] The government, through its spokesman Simos Kedikoglou, made the following statement for the double murder: "The killers, whoever they may be, will be dealt with ruthlessly by democracy, justice and the united Greek society.
[20] In December 2013, the government of Greece offered a reward of one million Euros, to anyone who would provide information that would lead to the capture of the murderers of Manolis Kapelonis and Giorgos Fountoulis.
[24] Commemorations and marches by various far-right organizations and football fans holding candles and torches, also took place in countries like Italy, Serbia and Spain; assorted fascists in London held a demonstration which characterized the victims as "Martyrs",[25] and in cities like Rome, Milan and Madrid.
[26][27] The mother of one of the killed Golden Dawn members was praised in the media for her 'dignified and outspoken response', saying "I want to send a message especially to our youth, who are going through such difficult times, not to create such extremism ... Bloodshed is not the right way.
"[3] Two weeks later on 16 November, a journal called Zougla announced that an unknown person contacted the station informing them the area where an envelope which contained a USB stick was placed; and that the communique was stored on it.
Zougla uploaded the 18-page communique, in which a previously unknown organization, the "Militant People's Revolutionary Forces", claimed the responsibility for the "political executions of the fascist members of the Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party".
[28][29][10] Following the publication of the communique Golden Dawn stated that "the miserable and stupid manifesto of the cowardly murderers proves that they belong to the criminal ideological womb of the far left".