The French right-wing organization “Ordre Nouveau” will hold on Friday a national conference in Nice with the participation of representatives of a number of West European and Latin American neo-fascist organizations. The Nice municipality has refused to rent a public hall to the organizers of the meeting who now plan to hold the conference in one of the city’s cinemas. A number of cinema proprietors have also refused to make their halls available, apparently fearing damage to their property as a result of possible clashes between the neo-fascists and left-wing organizations which plan to picket the meeting.
A number of these organizations have already announced that in spite of a police order barring street demonstrations they intend to forcibly prevent the neo-fascists from holding the conference. Fifteen anti-fascist organizations will hold an indoor meeting Thursday, on the eve of the Ordre Nouveau conference to protest against the resurgence of neo-fascist groups. The Nice Jewish community has also launched a public protest and has asked the authorities to bar the conference from the city.
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