Czech Republic: Hundreds plan to demonstrate against neo-Nazis on 1 May

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Source: Romea

If neo-Nazis gather publicly on 1 May in Brno, there will also be a public assembly by those opposed to them under the name BRNO BLOCKS 2014! (Brno blokuje 2014!). While around 600 promoters of the right-wing extremist Workers' Youth (Dělnická mládež - DM) organization are scheduled to come to Brno that day, conveners of the counter-demonstration hope to bring out 2 000 opponents of neo-Nazism.

Svatopluk Bartík announced the planned gathering against right-wing extremism on behalf of BRNO BLOCKS 2014! to the Czech News Agency today. DM has announced two marches in Brno for 1 May, but it is possible the group will instead join a similar neo-Nazi event in Ústí nad Labem.

"It decidedly is not our aim to spark clashes or to prevent the police from doing their work. We just want to show, in a peaceful format, that we do not want extremists in the city," Bartík said of the Brno counter-protest.

So far 700 people have confirmed their participation in the counter-protest through the Facebook social networking site. Bartík noted that extremists usually gather in Brno every other year but that the tradition was canceled last year.

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[Jake Stern]

1. How soon some forget the terrible toll the extreme nationalistic and racial

ideology of the Nazis ended up inflicting on the Czech people that they feel comfortable enough to copy it.

[davidpdx]

2. I hope the opponents bring out enough people to have them outnumbered 2 or 3 to 1

It would be encouraging.