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Neo-Nazis in Hungary protest against globalisation
Feb 11, 2007 - 11:03:51 AM
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In previous years, the demonstrations on Feb 11 had been organised by the Hungarian subsidiary of the international right-wing extremist group Blood and Honour. The Hungarian city court had banned the organisation's Hungarian faction in 2005.
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By DPA,
[RxPG] Budapest, Feb 11 - Some 1,000 Hungarian neo-Nazis and skinheads and dozens of like-minded foreigners protested at Budapest's Heroes Square against globalisation.
The demonstration commemorated the escape attempt with which German Wehrmacht armed forces and pro-German Hungarian Arrow Cross Party members tried to break up the encirclement of Budapest during the Soviet siege on Feb 11, 1945. The protests were peaceful.
Participants were carrying the medieval Arpad flag used during the Nazi era, while individual speakers called for a 'fight of life and death' against globalisation, which would ''besiege the whole of Europe. Among the speakers was Matthias Fischer, leader of the German National Democratic Party -. A private citizen had registered the demonstration.
In previous years, the demonstrations on Feb 11 had been organised by the Hungarian subsidiary of the international right-wing extremist group Blood and Honour. The Hungarian city court had banned the organisation's Hungarian faction in 2005.
Hungarian prosecutors argue they have virtually no discretion to act if private citizens register demonstrations, due to the relatively liberal Hungarian right of assembly.
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