Dortmund Celebrates Neo-Nazi March Ban
Published on Saturday, 01 September 2012 19:04 Written by Sean Gallup
Demonstrators carry a banner that reads: "Stop Nazis Together, Dortmund Association Against the Right".
while marching to celebrate a court order banning a march by neo-Nazis on September 1, 2012 in Dortmund, Germany. The neo-Nazi march would have coincided with Anti-War Day and has been an annual occurence in Dortmund, though for the first time Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) upheld a lower court ban to stop the neo-Nazis from marching.
Crititical in the decision was a ban only weeks before on three neo-Nazi organizations active in the region and police raids that netted weapons, computers and propaganda materials. Dortmund has been plagued by a virulent neo-Nazi problem in recent years, though a strong engagement by citizins groups, churches, city administration, local police and regional law enforcement have finally led to a decisive move against the neo-Nazis.
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