Czech Republic: Hundreds of rampaging neo-Nazis attempt pogrom against Romani people in Ostrava

[uhnope]

Source: Romea

An anti-Roma march by neo-Nazis attended by between 600 - 800 people ended in clashes with police today in Ostrava. Police arrested more than 60 people and both neo-Nazis and police officers were injured.

The most serious incidents took place at the intersection of Mariánskohorská and Nádražní Streets. Police officers halted neo-Nazis there who had been doing their best to reach Svatopluk Čech Square, where a Romani demonstration had taken place before noon.

Bottles, firecrackers, garbage cans, rocks and smoke bombs were sent flying through the air. Police used tear gas several times.

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Around 600 - 800 neo-Nazis, according to police, met on Prokešovo Square in front of the New Town Hall in Ostrava just after 14:00, from where they then set out on a march through the town which other people joined. By that time, most of the approximately 600 Romani residents who had gathered on Svatopluk Čech Square were no longer there.

Read more: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-republic-hundreds-of-rampaging-neo-nazis-attempt-pogrom-against-romani-people-in-ostrava

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Just another Saturday in Central Europe with neo-Nazis rampaging in a place where up to 83% of the white people have strongly racist attitudes towards the Roma (Gypsies).

[DURHAM D]

1. Good lord.

What is wrong with people.

[RKP5637]

2. World over, some people just gotta have hatred. n/t

[loli phabay]

3. its with good reason that Rom are handy with the old lupo sawed off.

[David__77]

4. My Romani family left Europe to flee these racist scum.

Behind the rotten facade of "democratic Europe" lies this racism and chauvinism. Sickening.

[loli phabay]

8. they may find the Rom a different proposition this time, the darkening taught a valuable lesson

There is a lot of military training in the nations nowadays and no way will the big man not fight back.

[pampango]

13. The "racist scum" exist in Europe as they do everywhere. That does not mean that democracy is a

"rotten facade". These far-right thugs are motivated by a hatred of "them". "They" can be immigrants or fellow nationals who are of a different color, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion or just too liberal.

The far-right's hatred of people who are different is not going away. Democratic governments in Europe (and elsewhere in the world) do have to follow a path of inclusiveness and respect for differences, deal with the crimes these far-right thugs commit and not cave in to their demand that society's problems be blamed on "them".

Some of the most progressive countries in the world have violent, far-right fringes. It seems that no matter how equitablly a society's income is distributed, how strong their safety net is or how strong their unions are, there will be a fringe that finds some "thems" to hate. Indeed, equitable treatment of people whom the far-right perceives "do not belong here" motivates these thugs more than "benign neglect" of these groups would.

[David__77]

14. In today's Czech republic, I think it's a rotten facade.

At least to this particular minority community. The hate isn't just hate, but built-in, institutionalized discrimination at all levels. So, yes, it is rotten.

[Judi Lynn]

5. lRemarkably primitive in a "civilized" world. Shame on these hate-breathing monsters. n/t

[dtom67]

6. too bad they only produce 2 or 3 thousand barrels a day....

if there was more oil we could be talking about bombing the shit outta THEM instead of the Syrians.

seems everyone wants to unload on Someone.

I don't understand the attraction....

[NutmegYankee]

7. Oh a pogrom, how quaint!

Way to move society back to the 50's - 1350's that is.

[branford]

9. Ah, your friendly neighborhood neo-Nazis . . .

Will Europe ever learn. They often like to complain about uncivilized Americans, yet they are still dealing with their own quaint little pogroms. It makes our racial protests pale in comparison.

I come from a family of Holocaust survivors who escaped from Eastern Europe. Reading stories like the OP both makes my blood boil and want to weep for my fellow man.

[loli phabay]

10. large parts of eastern europe in particular have a lot in common with the 30´s

Lots of hatred of minority groups.

[freshwest]

11. It took 300 police officers hours using tear gas, dogs, etc. to subdue and arrest these thugs.

And the Romani people who had come for a demonstration outfoxed them by leaving before they got to the square.

Then the radicals did what all mobs do, went batshit crazy. Overall, it was a success. I wonder how much more of this is going to happen and if it's going to overtax law enforcement.

This was part of several of these planned attacks. Every time I see people going after others, I wonder just how much military style policing is it going to take, since they attacked the police for stopping them.

That is interesting, with more links. Thanks for posting. I'd imagined the Czech republic settled down in recent years. But I guess not.

I always wonder how the mobs have time for all of this, maybe they are all unemployed?

[Berlin Expat]

12. This happened right down

the street from my apartment. I live on Nádražní Ulice. I didn't see it happen, as my apartment overlooks a rather expansive forest area, but I heard a commotion which sounded like some kind of rally when I was walking to the store around 15.00 (3 pm). Ordinarily, I like to check things out like that, but this time - for whatever reason - I chose not to. Good thing as well, apparently.

Neo-nazis and skinhead groups are far from uncommon around here, unfortunately, and there's still a lot of hardcore racism directed against the Rom and other people, mostly non-white foreigners. Their attitudes toward non-white foreigners are all over the place; some don't mind East Asians one bit, some don't mind Africans (quite a few of them have inexplicably positive attitudes towards African-Americans), others can't stand anyone who's not white, some hate other Caucasian ethnic groups such as Germans and Russians, etc.

The one thing that does unite them is their rather broad and deep hatred of the Rom people.

[uhnope]

15. these protests/riots are happening on Saturdays, so employment status is not an issue

Yes there have been many of these planned attacks this summer. This website provides excellent coverage of them in English: http://www.romea.cz/en/

[Enthusiast]

16. Sickening.........nt