400 Arrested As Left Wing Protesters Clash With Far-Right In Germany

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Source: Independent UK

Hundreds of left-wing protesters have clashed with people attending a far-right party conference in the German city of Stuttgart.

Around 1,000 officers were deployed at the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party conference, as 400 arrests were made.

Demonstrators burned tires on a motorway and threw fireworks and flares at officers, according to a police spokesman. A police helicopter was sent to the scene, while water cannon and pepper spray were used on the crowds.

The conference at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre, which was attended by nearly 2,000 AfD members, was delayed by an hour.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alternative-fur-deutschland-conference-protesters-germany-arrested-a7007971.html

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1. "Keep refugees, drive Nazis away!"

Footage on social media showed the protesters shouting slogans such as: "Keep refugees, drive Nazis away!" and "We'll get you all."

AfD, which wants to ban the burqa and outlaw minarets in Germany, is expected to announce that it is explicitly anti-Islamic during the meeting.

Proposals under consideration include withdrawing from the euro and the reintroduction of army conscription.

It has campaigned against Angela Merkel's open-borders approach, labelling the German chancellor’s decision to accept a million migrants and refugees in 2015 as “catastrophic”.

Thanks for finding this, Purveyor. The left is certainly actively opposing the far-right in Germany.