As I told in yesterday's Salon, 23 October, the anniversary of the 1956 Revolution, is high season for the far-right to raise ruckus -- which meant riots in the past two years.

This time, bad weather kept most of the ceremony interrupters at home -- others were checked immediately by police. This level of security and keeping away the public is still no good news, but at least police managed to suspect 12 people who really had something on them: they either concealed various weapons, were wanted criminals, or carried a (forbidden) SS emblem.

In the evening, as expected, about 500 of the rioters assembled for an illegal protest march. But this time, they were driven into a trap: completely surrounded in a street. All they managed was to kick a journalist, and break one shop window (those who did it wcouldn't disappear in the chaos and were immediately arrested).

Then police controlled them one by one, arresting those unwilling to take down their ski masks, and those found to hide molotov cocktails.

A bit later, police discovered firebombs in a parked car, then waited for and arrested the car's driver.

It's sad it took them two years and a dozen riots to learn to do the job properly...

BTW, do you remember the anti-Microsoft egg-thrower with the atrocious English?

He was among the arrested.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}