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Rostock, Saturday, June 30th
Today, 2000 policemen, from seven states, protected a Nazi demonstration in Rostock.
180 of the expected 500 Fascists came into the city. Their route was blocked several times by counter protesters. By now, a number of 800 antifascists has been counted.
The demonstration was organized by the Neonazi party NPD against the protests and direct actions of residents against a newly opened Nazi store (“East Coast Corner”) in their neighborhood. The Nazi demonstration went on until 7pm.
Also, a severe Nazi assault was reported this afternoon. In a train to Rostock, 70 Antifascists, coming from the Fusion festival, faced 100 Neonazis.
In Pölchow, a village few miles away from Rostock, the Nazis attacked the Antifascists.
They came from different sides, broke windows, blocked escape routes, dragged singled persons outside, kicked them and beat them with clubs. Several people were beaten unconscious, and had memory loss afterwards. A baby suffered cuts from the breaking glass.
According to eye-witness reports, the Nazis filmed and photographed the attack with cellphone and digital cameras.
No policemen were seen anywhere, only 30 minutes later police untis arrived in Pölchow, but instead of taking care of the aggressors, the police filmed the victims and took the personal data of some of them.
None of the Neonazis were arrested.
Afterwards the police put both groups back into the same train to Rostock. In Rostock, the police took the data of the remaining victims. According to reports, some of the traumatized victims, that were shivering and crying, were ridiculed by the present policemen.
The Fascists, tho, were able to join their “Kameraden” on the Nazi demonstration. 20 people were seriously injured, some of them children, the Nazis collected enough evidence for their own trials, but the police refused to take action, and none of them got arrested. Instead the police attacked people who opposed the Neonazis on the street with clubs and water cannons.
The aussalters came from Berlin, Güstrow, Wismar, Bad Doberan and districts in Ostvorpommern. The NPD-state’s parliament representatives Udo Pastörs, Stefan Köster and Tino Müller were seen on the train.
One of the ringleaders of the attack can be seen on this picture, the man on the left, with the suit jacket: http://media.de.indymedia.org/images/2007/06/186184.jpg
The Neonazis call for another demonstration on July 7th in Rostock.
newsticker of that day(on german): http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/186271.shtml
german report of the Nazi asault: http://de.indymedia.org/2007/06/186531.shtml
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