Neo-Nazis come to Dělnická strana demonstration armed, police detain 13

Romano Vodi – Neo-Nazis come to Dělnická strana demonstration armed, police detain 13 – News

This afternoon a gathering of supporters of the extreme right-wing Dělnická strana (DS) lasting roughly half an hour took place on Jiřího z Poděbrad square in Prague. The event took place under exceptional security measures on the part of the Prague police, due to which the gathering, billed as a „Day of National Unity“, began later than originally scheduled. Speeches were given on the square by DS chair Tomáš Vandas and Vice-Chair Jiří Štěpánek only. Police estimated that 150-200 neo-Nazis attended. Police evaluated the event as a high-risk one beforehand. The party is linked to neo-Nazi groups such as Národní odpor („National Resistance“ – NO). A neo-Nazi gathering in Litvínov in mid-October resulted in clashes with police officers; police were subsequently criticized by civic associations for having been insufficiently prepared. Around 300-400 right-wing extremists traveled to Litvínov, roughly the same number that met two months earlier at another gathering in Hradec Králové. Neither gathering was officially announced to authorities beforehand. Dozens of police officers posted at the metro exits began to ask DS supporters coming to the square to show identification; 13 were detained. Prague police spokesperson Tomáš Hulan said those detained were carrying weapons that could be used to either stab or cut, which is against the law on public gatherings. „They are mostly blade weapons; in one case police officers found paralyzing spray,“ iDNES.cz reports Prague police spokesperson Iva Knolová as saying. Police officers patrolled on horseback in the surrounding streets and police dogs were also standing by. There was a police vehicle on the square. The area was patrolled by a mobile water cannon and armed personnel carrier.

Two Roma fatally shot in attack in Hungarian village

Romano Vodi – Two Roma fatally shot in attack in Hungarian village – News

Two members of Hungary’s Roma minority died Monday after they were shot as they fled a house set ablaze in a pre- dawn arson attack, authorities said. The victims were a 43-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman, said police in Miskolc, the provincial capital. Another man suffered gunshot wounds. Hungarian national police launched a special task force to investigate whether the killings in Nagycsecs, a village near the Romanian border, had a racist motive.

4 Neo-Nazis Sentenced to Prison for Killing Korean

KBS GLOBAL: 4 Neo-Nazis Sentenced to Prison for Killing Korean

Ukraine’s Supreme Court has sentenced four neo-Nazis to 13 years in prison for killing a Korean student and for committing crimes against humanity. The court upheld a previous ruling by a high court issued in May, rejecting the prosecution’s request to drop the hate-crime charges.

Mass graves reopen Spain’s civil war wounds

FT.com / World – Mass graves reopen Spain’s civil war wounds

Hardly a month passes in Spain without the well-publicised unearthing of another civil war mass grave containing victims of Francisco Franco, the former dictator. The holes and ditches look like archaeological sites. But the onlookers are often weeping over the skulls and ribcages of parents and relatives gunned down in cold blood 70 years ago. In most countries, seven decades would be long enough for such exhumations, followed by reburials and commemorations, to be universally welcomed as a way of coming to terms with past tragedies. Not so in Spain. Instead, a drive by Baltasar Garzón, the activist judge, to dig up more graves and right the wrongs of the Francoist past has aroused indignation on the right and exposed deep political and social divisions dating back to before the 1936-39 civil war. Mr Garzón’s latest and most contentious act has been to declare Franco and his colleagues guilty of a systematic plan to exterminate their Republican opponents – and therefore of crimes against humanity that do not fall under Spain’s 1977 amnesty law. This not only provoked anger and ridicule from conservative politicians but embroiled Mr Garzón in a bitter legal dispute over his right to continue his investigations. Javier Zaragoza, High Court chief prosecutor and an old friend of Mr Garzón, rejected most of his arguments.

Russian police detain over 100 neo-Nazi demonstrators

Russian police detain over 100 neo-Nazi demonstrators | Top News

Russian police arrested over 100 neo-Nazi demonstrators at an unsanctioned march Tuesday in Moscow, the Interfax agency reported. The participants in a so-called Russian March were taken away by members of the special forces OMON unit, the agency reported, citing police sources. Moscow city authorities had not sanctioned the demonstration, coming on Russia’s National Unity Day.

siehe auch: Russian police detain youths chanting Nazi slogans. Russian riot police detained more than 200 nationalist protesters after an attempted march in Moscow on Tuesday when some of them gave a Nazi salute and shouted „Heil Hitler“. Disturbances also broke out at other nationalist marches in Russia on a national holiday following what human rights groups say are growing problems with racism. Several hundred youths, some wearing surgical masks and shouting „Russia for Russians“ and „Forward, Russia!“, turned up in Moscow for an unauthorised demonstration organised by the Russian Movement against Illegal Immigration and another group. Scuffles broke out when riot police blocked their way and moved in to make arrests. „Over 200 people were detained during the unauthorised action“, Interfax news agency quoted a police official as saying; Clashes as Russia marks unity day. Ultra-nationalists demanded a crackdown on illegal immigrants. Clashes have broken out across Russia on National Unity Day, after ultra-nationalists defied official bans on holding marches. In Moscow, police arrested at least 200 people, some of whom gave a Nazi salute as they tried to rally in the capital. Arrests were also made in St Petersburg and several major cities in Siberia and the Far East, Russian media report. On Monday, seven people were hurt when local youths fought migrants from the Caucasus near Moscow, police said. Seventeen people were also held in the town of Solnechnogorsk and police confiscated stun guns, knives and bats, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported; Around 1,500 nationalists join ‘Russian March’ in Moscow. The officially sanctioned „Russian March“ went ahead peacefully in Moscow on Tuesday, as around 1,500 nationalists gathered to mark Unity Day. The event, organized by the People’s Union and Russian Image, started with a march along the Moscow River and ended with a rally by Hotel Ukraine, but fell short of the predicted 5,000 participants. At the rally, the leader of the People’s Union laid out his vision for Russia: „Russia should be neither European, nor American. Russia should be Russian,“ Sergei Baburin said. „Much has already been done, and we are happy with the new course and success of Russia. But there is still much to be done.“ Other nationalist groups had also applied to the city government to hold rallies on the public holiday, but their requests were rejected. An unsanctioned gathering on central Moscow’s Novy Arbat resulted in the detention of more than 200 far-right activists; 500 arrested in Moscow nationalists rallies. Police detained around 500 nationalist activists taking part in illegal rallies in various parts of Moscow’s city center to mark Unity Day on Tuesday. „According to new data coming in from various parts of central Moscow, around 500 people were detained for illegally taking part in rallies that were not sanctioned by the authorities,“ police spokesman Viktor Biryukov told RIA Novosti. The largest of the illegal rallies took place near Arbat metro station, bringing together activists from various anti-immigration groups. Biryukov said police detained activists only in extreme cases, and that most have already been released. There were no serious incidents, he added. (…) The far-right group Slavic Union brought together 150 activists for a „Russian March“ and rally at St. Petersburg’s Chernyshevsky Garden. A group leader stood on a children’s climbing frame read out a statement on „freeing the Slavic people,“ and was greeted by supporters with Nazi-style salutes; Far-Right Russians clash with police in Moscow. Far-Right mobs clashed with riot police in Moscow as Russia celebrated a national holiday. Ultra-nationalists and neo-Nazis made fascist salutes to mark a People’s Unity Day holiday which saw similar rallies in cities across the country. Hundreds of demonstrators chanted „Glory to Russia!“ and „Glory to the Russian people!“ as they gathered outside a metro station before riot police intervened, beating the demonstrators with batons.

Neo-Nazi Bombers Sentenced for „Hooliganism“

Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Neo-Nazi Bombers Sentenced for „Hooliganism“

Three neo-Nazis who planted a shrapnel-filled bomb in an night club hosting an anti-fascist rock concert were sentenced to short prison terms for „hooliganism.“ The defendants received sentences ranging from two and a half to four years for planting a bomb at the „Roks Club“ in St. Petersburg on October 13, 2007. A security guard noticed smoke coming from a bag the defendants had placed on the stage and took it outside, where police defused it. Rather than convicting them of extremism or a hate crime, the court found that the defendants, who are members of the „Slavic Union“ and were found to be in possession of neo-Nazi paraphernalia, set the bomb because of „personal dislike“ for people inside the club.

Italian fascist who stole Mussolini’s corpse dies

Italian fascist who stole Mussolini’s corpse dies | World | Reuters

The Italian fascist notorious for masterminding the theft of dictator Benito Mussolini’s corpse has died, a family member said on Monday. Domenico Leccisi dug up the dictator’s unmarked grave in April 1946. The theft caused a sensation in Italy’s fragile postwar democracy and became worldwide news. Leccisi, who was 88, died at a Milan nursing home on Sunday after a long illness, his daughter-in-law Maria del Canto Merida told Reuters. Leccisi „was a fascist of the era, and he died a fascist. He never changed his ideas“, she said.

siehe auch: Fascist who stole Mussolini’s corpse dies. The Italian fascist notorious for masterminding the theft of dictator Benito Mussolini’s corpse has died, a family member said on Monday. (…) Communist partisans killed Mussolini and his mistress in April 1945, as Allied powers were driving his Nazi backers out of Italy at the end of World War Two, and dumped them in Milan’s Piazzale Loreto square. The bodies were hung upside down from a petrol station, where a crowd stoned and spat on them. On the eve of the first anniversary of Italy’s liberation from Nazi occupying forces, Leccisi, then a right-wing journalist, and two helpers dug up the corpse from the city’s Musocco cemetery and spirited it away.

Hitler’s Austrian ‘culture capital’

BBC NEWS | Europe | Hitler’s Austrian ‘culture capital’

The Austrian city of Linz is tackling its Nazi past as it prepares to become Europe’s capital of culture in 2009, the BBC’s Bethany Bell reports. Hitler had planned a grand theatre and even an Adolf Hitler Hotel in Linz Adolf Hitler had ambitious plans for Linz, the city where he grew up. He wanted to make the town on the Danube into one of the five Fuhrer cities of the Third Reich, along with Berlin, Hamburg, Nuremberg and Munich. Linz is now examining this page of its past in an exhibition called the Fuhrer’s Capital of Culture. Martin Heller, the artistic director of Linz 2009, says there was an obligation to tackle the city’s Nazi history.

Barack Obama wins presidency, making history

Barack Obama wins presidency, making history – Los Angeles Times

The Democrat breaks the ultimate U.S. racial barrier with his defeat of Republican John McCain. Barack Obama, the son of a father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, was elected the nation’s 44th president Tuesday, breaking the ultimate racial barrier to become the first African American to claim the country’s highest office. A nation founded by slave owners and seared by civil war and generations of racial strife delivered a smashing electoral college victory to the 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, who forged a broad, multiracial, multiethnic coalition. His victory was a leap in the march toward equality: When Obama was born, people with his skin color could not even vote in parts of America, and many were killed for trying.

scrreenshot of: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/cartoon/2008/nov/05/uselections2008-georgebush

siehe auch: Google News Elections; Party time for Americans in UK. „I’ve lived in Europe for 15 years and didn’t feel American any more. Tonight I feel all American.“ Lori Demori was among the 300,000 Americans watching their country vote from British shores. At parties around the UK, they watched the election unfold minute by minute alongside their countryfolk thousands of miles away. For writer Lori, watching Barack Obama win was like coming home. „That brash hopefulness I loved about America is on its way back. Seeing people’s faces looking hopeful is quite moving. „I just want to keep enjoying it. When we look back, this is going to be something that was big.“; US election results map. Check state-by-state results with our interactive map.; Live text: US election 2008