City officials in a Belgian city banned a meeting by an extreme right-wing party that would have coincided with the Nov. 9 anniversary of Kristallnacht. A spokeswoman for the mayor’s office in Ghent said the meeting of the Flemish Bloc was canceled because of public safety concerns.
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