arrived in the city center there riots between about 400 skinheads and anarchists. By evening, police arrested about 250 people, including ten German-speaking left, armed with sticks were. There were at least six injured, including a policeman.
also three buses coming from Germany with neo-Nazis were persecuted by police vehicles to ensure they do not approach the place of the prohibited demonstration.
The notified by the movement of young National Democrats march, which was officially directed against the Czech military presence in Iraq was declared by the authorities in advance to be illegal. The right-wing extremists had chosen the anniversary also known as "Kristallnacht" pogrom known November 1938 for their parade: On the night of 9th 10th had the Nazis in Germany and parts of Austria's Jewish businesses, Homes and synagogues destroyed. At least 100 people were killed that night.
The group had sought to move through the Jewish history marked by the Prague district of Josefstadt. This was prohibited by the authorities and the courts. However, the extreme right called for, especially via the Internet to ignore the ban.
More than a thousand people gathered in the Czech capital, to prevent the far-right demonstrations in the Jewish Quarter. Many protesters were fixed to a yellow star that Jews were forced to wear during the Nazi era. With signs saying "never again" they gathered in front of the Prague synagogue and the Museum to commemorate the 77,000 Jewish victims of the Nazis in the former Czechoslovakia.
leaders also took part in demonstrations against the ground. Prague Mayor Pavel Bem described the far-right rally as "not acceptable". He called for a "cultivation of the national memory, so the past is not repeated." The Czech President Vaclav Klaus and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg took part in the counter-protests.
source. http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0, 1518,516687,00 html
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