Swedish anti-racists swamp first PEGIDA anti-Islam rally
Source: Agence France Presse
4 hours ago
Stockholm (AFP) - Sweden's first rally by the German-inspired "anti-Islamisation" movement PEGIDA in the city of Malmoe was dwarfed Monday by a counter-demonstration about a hundred times larger, according to police estimates.
Television images showed a small group of PEGIDA demonstrators hemmed into a cordoned-off area of the southern city's central square, surrounded by anti-racism protesters.
"There are at least 3,000 thousand, most of them counter-demonstrators" Malmoe police spokesman Lars Foerstell told AFP, adding that there were about 30 PEGIDA protestors.
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Counter-demonstrators drowned out attempts by the group to deliver speeches with chants of "no racists on our streets" and police were forced to intervene to extinguish smoke bombs and firecrackers hurled at the PEGIDA side of the square.
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