Leftists halt Neo-Nazi protest

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>]

Below is a report about the anti-Nazi demonstration in Munich on
Saturday. The report is basically correct, but all of the 800 Nazis tried to
march, but they could march only a few hundred metres.

What is missing from the report is that one anti-fascist was seriously
injured when police pushed him into a fence. This happened when the police
tried to open the road for the Nazi march. Likewise the police not only
arrested Nazis, but 17 anti-fascists as well.

Johannes

From:

http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=50699

Leftists halt Neo-Nazi protest

10/13/2002

MUNICH, Germany (AP) -- Thousands of leftist demonstrators prevented a group
of neo-Nazis from marching through downtown Munich Saturday to protest an
exhibition of Nazi-era crimes by the German army.
Police detained nine of the hundreds of far-right demonstrators and 11 of
the roughly 3,000 leftists who formed roadblocks in several streets to stop
the neo-Nazis from marching through Munich.

Several people were charged with displaying outlawed symbols, such as the
Nazi swastika, police said.

About 800 far-right extremists gathered in the Thersienwiese park in near
Munich's central station, police said, where they held a rally against the
exhibition, under the motto, "The German Wehrmacht fought bravely and
respectably, stop the exhibition of lies!"

Afterward, about 300 of the neo-Nazis attempted to march through the city,
but were stopped by members of the leftist groups who had taken to the
streets in a counter-demonstration.

The city of Munich had outlawed the neo-Nazi march on grounds that it
endangered the public, but a court ruled Friday the grounds were unfounded.


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