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Far Right Extremists Flee Anti-Mosque Rally In Germany. 40,000 Anti-fascists Hit The
A weekend gathering in Cologne of far-right European extremists ended in farce when the main rally was cancelled as the organisers fled for their own safety.
Pro-Cologne, a group counting some of Europe's most prominent hardliners in its ranks, had intended to campaign against the construction of Germany's largest mosque, due to be completed in 2010 in the Ehrenfeld district of the city.
The building has attracted controversy because of its size, aiming to cater for up to 4,000 worshippers under a dome 37m (121ft) high and two 55m minarets - although they are shorter than the twin 157m spires of the cathedral that dominates the skyline of Cologne.
Politicians invited to the protest included Filip Dewinter, head of the Belgian Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) party, Andreas Mölzer, an MEP from the Austrian Freedom Party, and Mario Borghezio, an MEP in the Italian Northern League. Two members of the British National Party were also in town, including Richard Barnbrook, its sole member of the London Assembly.
A press conference to launch the pan-European movement against “Islamification” descended into chaos when its secret location - on board a Rhine river cruiser - was leaked. Left-wing activists arrived en masse to disrupt the event and were so successful that only two Pro-Cologners made it on board before the captain cast off in panic and headed for open water.
A Pro-Cologne spokesman said: “Stones, bricks and paintbombs were thrown and the panoramic windows of the Moby Dick were shattered.”
The group had then planned to tour the site of the mosque but this was stopped by the police on the ground that a busload of right-wing extremists cruising through a predominantly Muslim area might not be conducive to law and order.
So the only chance that Pro-Cologne had to make an impact was at its main rally on Saturday afternoon in the Heumarkt square. The organisers hoped for about 1,500 people. They had not reckoned on 40,000 screaming anti-fascists trying to break into the square to remonstrate with them.
With leading delegates stuck at the airport and the Heumarkt besieged, the rally was called off after only 45 minutes. The organisers began dismantling their microphones and stage, hoping that the security cordon would hold as police battled against the more violent protesters who were throwing paintbombs and snatching batons.
Although some of them were spirited away, many were penned in for several hours, unable even to get a beer as the bar owners in the square refused to serve them. Finally the BNP representatives got out, scuttling out the back of some of the buildings lining the Heumarkt, their attempts to present a united European front against Islamification in tatters.
“This was a victory for the democratic forces in this city,” Fritz Schramma, the Christian Democrat mayor, said. The city has a 120,000-strong Muslim community, part of the three million Muslims who make up about 4per cent of the German population.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4799490.ece
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I'm actually surprised that the mayor said something positive about the anti-fascists. I reckon in Britain the local politicians would be spewing "can't take the law into their own hands this" and "should respect freedom of speech that" drivel.
It's good to see Europe is ahead of the curve as usual.
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I'm guessing this wasnt the pro-imperalism, pro-Israel antifa.
yes they were, the main organisers of the radical actions were "anti-deutschen".
hence the banners "against nationalism, against islamism"
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This is not true, the anti-deutschen were very few and the vast majority of the activists and the organizers where not anti-deutsch. Two of them came to an info-night in my hometown, and I talked to them about it. They said there was no anti-deutschen in the organization, they just show up in demos and actions. They are usually not with many, but they are very vocal about it. (always carrying banners and flags and stuff).
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they weren't the main organisators behind the blockades, but I don't know who organised the antifa demo friday night. but a pretty great group of the 'radical' part of the counter actions were anti-deutsch. Either that or there were to many ajax fans in town.
Well, clearly the banning of the pro-cologne congress was a political decision in the end. It wouldn't have been possible without the approval of the regional policy makers. The difference to other Nazi rallies is the massive involvement of bourgeois groups in the blockades though. If it would have been "just" the "evil Antifa/autonomen" the police surely wouldn't have had a problem to break the blockades by force.
total bullshit, as others have already pointed out. There surely where anti-deutsche present at the actions, but they did in no way had any leading role in the organization of the blockades. A list of supporting groups can be found HERE. You will see no anti-german Antifa groups, but a quiet heterogeneous mix of various non-anti-German Antifa groups, anarchist/syndicalist groups like the FAU, attac groups, various communist parties of all branches, and even youth federations of the social democrats and Greens.
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It's great to see that list. No wonder they managed to mobilise so many people. Amazing stuff.
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bravo!! fucking A+!!!
than ill stand corrected, my apologys.'
there were some (reasonbel/nice) anti-duetsche in amsterdam mobelising for this event and from them i got the impression the main "autonomus" organisers were anti-deutsche, (but than again, my german is very crapy, so maybe i just missunderstood).
after i saw the photo's of banners who empathysed anti-islamism as well as anti-fascism i asumed they were anti-deutch.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
Good! all power to the proleteriat in cleansing out the fascist beast from the homeland of Marx and Engels!!!!
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Good! all power to the proleteriat in cleansing out the fascist beast from the homeland of Marx and Engels!!!!that guy is a crazy Stalinist nationalist type, i left the comment alone for giggles,homeland
the fucking retard
So the anti-deutschen were there against the anti-muslim protestors? This makes me a bit confused, because the anti-deutschen are known for having extreme hatred of 'islam' and 'palis'.
there are a lot of different anti-deutschen, they only that combines them is that they're wrong.
