Nine persons, including four policemen, were injured and 39 were arrested in a violent clash in Stuttgart between neo-Nazis and anti-Nazi protestors last Saturday night.
The street violence involved 150 delegates to the convention of the Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Free German Workers Party), one of the most active neo-Nazi groups in West Germany. They were battled by more than 500 anti-Nazi, including members of the Anti-Fascist League, the Green Party, Young Socialists, Communist Party and various trade unions.
Police said the combattants were armed with knives, truncheons, slingshots, whips and tear gas cannisters. They described the clash as the most violent since a leftwing demonstrator was killed in Frankfurt last September during a protest rally against the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party.
The injured, some of them seriously hurt, were taken to local hospitals.
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