About 200 members of the far-right National Democratic Party marched on Saturday, gathering in front of police headquarters in Passau and protesting what they called the "arbitrary" conduct of police and a "media smear campaign."

 

However, the right-wing participants were far outnumbered by counter demonstrators, who numbered around a thousand.

 

"We have to tap into the virtues of our able-bodied democracy," Mayor Juergen Dupper told the crowd, saying Passau was a city of tolerance which disdained right-wing violence.

 

Some 1,000 police officers were also on duty to prevent outbreaks of violence. Ten people were arrested.

Citizens of Passau carry placards reading "Brown filth? Passau is flushing"

Members of right-wing groups march past a banner reading "Extreme right-wingers not welcome"

(This is standard practice in West Germany, but I think still newsworthy as this is how it should be done.)


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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}