The mayor of Budapest has banned a suspected skinhead concert and rally. The concert and rally were to have taken place in a major concert hall in Budapest’s city park Dec. 26. According to local media, however, Mayor Gabor Demszky informed police officials that the concert had been organized as a neo-fascist rally that would have drawn skinhead extremists from various countries.
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