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| Police detain protesters in Berlin as anti-immigrant rally faces off with counter demo (VIDEOS) | Police detain protesters in Berlin as anti-immigrant rally faces off with counter demo (VIDEOS) |
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| Berlin police used force to disperse a sit in protesting a demonstration by the right-wing, anti-immigration Identitarian movement, demanding protection for the European “identity, culture and lifestyle." | Berlin police used force to disperse a sit in protesting a demonstration by the right-wing, anti-immigration Identitarian movement, demanding protection for the European “identity, culture and lifestyle." |
| Police said that under 1,000 activists gathered in a quiet part of the German capital on Saturday afternoon for a sanctioned march by the self-proclaimed “anti-jihadist” movement. | |
| They were outnumbered by an estimated 1,400 detractors, who have labeled the Identitarian movement “Nazi hipsters”, and assembled to disrupt the march. | |
| While many shouted at, and showed upraised middle fingers to the right-wing demonstrators, several, including celebrity activist Irmela Mensah-Schramm, famous for spraying over Neo-Nazi graffiti on the city streets, blocked the route of the planned march with a sit-in. | While many shouted at, and showed upraised middle fingers to the right-wing demonstrators, several, including celebrity activist Irmela Mensah-Schramm, famous for spraying over Neo-Nazi graffiti on the city streets, blocked the route of the planned march with a sit-in. |
| Police officers in armored suits removed the counter-protesters, using force to drag them away. | Police officers in armored suits removed the counter-protesters, using force to drag them away. |
| Although it was formed in 2002 in France before transferring to Germany, the Identitarian movement has only recently begun to attract mainstream attention, riding in the wake of Pegida’s well-attended anti-Islamization rallies and the high-profile electoral success of Alternative for Germany, which has rejected a formal alliance with the Identitarians. | |
| The group is thought have a core of fewer than 500 members, but has been widely covered due to its publicity stunts, such as putting up a guerrilla banner reading “Secure borders, secure future” on the Brandenburg Gate last year, and using Kickstarter to collect funds. | |
| The Identitarians staunchly deny any links with Nazism, saying they are not looking to glorify any particular race, but to defend the continent’s “cultural identity” from the onslaught of multiculturalism. |