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09-04-2011, 09:38 PM
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Dortmund, Germany - At least one police officer was severely injured, with many others receiving light injuries, as authorities tried to keep apart leftists protesting an annual neo-Nazi march through the western German city of Dortmund.
Officers were attacked with stones, fireworks, pepper spray and bottles. Around 1,500 left-wing protestors broke through barriers separating them from a group of about 700 marching neo-Nazis.
Police responded with water cannons and batons.
Although many of the anti-Nazi demonstrators protested peacefully, a group attacked the neo-Nazis, prompting a massive police intervention after they failed to separate the two groups.
Even before the march got underway, police had used pepper spray and reported several injuries after around 100 counter-demonstrators had evaded a roadblock.
The neo-Nazi march through a section of Dortmund that is home to many immigrants has become an annual event. It usually occurs around September 1 - the anniversary of the 1939 German attack against Poland during World War II.
It thus coincides with a meeting of leftists in the same city for the International Day of Peace, meaning clashes are almost pre-programmed.
Guntram Schneider, the minister for integration in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia who is participating the counter-demonstration, said it was intolerable that the neo-Nazis were allowed to march through Dortmund each year.
The neo-Nazi march, however, went off largely without incident. Later in the day, left-wing groups were planning a peaceful demonstration in a suburb that was once a Nazi stronghold.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1660758.php/Left-wing-neo-Nazi-clashes-disrupt-German-city
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100905-29621.html
Dortmund, Germany - At least one police officer was severely injured, with many others receiving light injuries, as authorities tried to keep apart leftists protesting an annual neo-Nazi march through the western German city of Dortmund.
Officers were attacked with stones, fireworks, pepper spray and bottles. Around 1,500 left-wing protestors broke through barriers separating them from a group of about 700 marching neo-Nazis.
Police responded with water cannons and batons.
Although many of the anti-Nazi demonstrators protested peacefully, a group attacked the neo-Nazis, prompting a massive police intervention after they failed to separate the two groups.
Even before the march got underway, police had used pepper spray and reported several injuries after around 100 counter-demonstrators had evaded a roadblock.
The neo-Nazi march through a section of Dortmund that is home to many immigrants has become an annual event. It usually occurs around September 1 - the anniversary of the 1939 German attack against Poland during World War II.
It thus coincides with a meeting of leftists in the same city for the International Day of Peace, meaning clashes are almost pre-programmed.
Guntram Schneider, the minister for integration in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia who is participating the counter-demonstration, said it was intolerable that the neo-Nazis were allowed to march through Dortmund each year.
The neo-Nazi march, however, went off largely without incident. Later in the day, left-wing groups were planning a peaceful demonstration in a suburb that was once a Nazi stronghold.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1660758.php/Left-wing-neo-Nazi-clashes-disrupt-German-city