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Monday, February 9, 2015
From the Liveblog of
Monday, February 9, 2015
Swedish anti-racists swamp first PEGIDA rally
Sweden’s first rally by the German-inspired “anti-Islamization” movement PEGIDA in the city of Malmo 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 people, most of them counter-demonstrators,” Malmo police spokesman Lars Foerstell told AFP, adding that there were about 30 PEGIDA protesters.
— AFP
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