Holden Caulfield
24th August 2008, 11:14
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About 150 supporters of Germany's far-right Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands demonstrated on Saturday in Berlin against the building of a Hindu temple.
A member of the extreme-right group, Sebastian Thom, who had been subject to an arrest warrant, was seized during the neo-Nazi rally. Police found batons hidden up his sleeve apparently for protection after a recent run in with Anti-fascists.
At the same time, about 800 anti-fascist activists from various groups mobilised themselves at various key areas of the NPD march.
Construction work on the Hindu temple is scheduled to begin early next year, in the multi-ethnic district of Neukoelln in south Berlin.
A poster on Indymedia Germany concluded that while they didn't manage to stop the NPD march this time and they could only mobilise less than 1000 in a city the size of Berlin, the numbers were atleast the same as recent actions while the NPD's 150 was significantly down from the 600 they mobilised in December. The action also show that the radical left in Germany is proving itself compitent in the fight against neo-Nazism and should be viewed as a dress rehearsal for the much larger event in December in South East Berlin.
A report in German on the days events can be found here (http://de.indymedia.org/2008/08/225247.shtml).
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About 150 supporters of Germany's far-right Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands demonstrated on Saturday in Berlin against the building of a Hindu temple.
A member of the extreme-right group, Sebastian Thom, who had been subject to an arrest warrant, was seized during the neo-Nazi rally. Police found batons hidden up his sleeve apparently for protection after a recent run in with Anti-fascists.
At the same time, about 800 anti-fascist activists from various groups mobilised themselves at various key areas of the NPD march.
Construction work on the Hindu temple is scheduled to begin early next year, in the multi-ethnic district of Neukoelln in south Berlin.
A poster on Indymedia Germany concluded that while they didn't manage to stop the NPD march this time and they could only mobilise less than 1000 in a city the size of Berlin, the numbers were atleast the same as recent actions while the NPD's 150 was significantly down from the 600 they mobilised in December. The action also show that the radical left in Germany is proving itself compitent in the fight against neo-Nazism and should be viewed as a dress rehearsal for the much larger event in December in South East Berlin.
A report in German on the days events can be found here (http://de.indymedia.org/2008/08/225247.shtml).
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