00:00Greek MEP Nikos Popas has been suspended from left-leaning party Syriza
00:06and will be referred to the Ethics Committee
00:08after he allegedly attacked a journalist at a bar in Strasbourg.
00:15In a statement, Syriza president Sokratis Phamelos
00:18said the MEP had also been expelled from the party's group in the European Parliament.
00:22The journalist Nikos Yiannopoulos, a reporter for Greece's News 24-7 website,
00:30said he was attacked by Popas on Tuesday evening.
00:36He claimed that Popas deliberately tripped him
00:38and subsequently hit him twice on the head from behind as he was leaving the bar.
00:45Yiannopoulos filed a complaint with Strasbourg authorities on Wednesday.
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