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A12 THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE SUNDAY • SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

GERMAN POLICE SHUT DOWN FAR-RIGHT MARCH BALLOON POKING FUN AT


Organizers hoped screamed and whistled an-
grily as officers broke up the
MAYOR FLIES OVER LONDON
for springboard for protest.
The march was stopped
BY YONETTE JOSEPH raised after an online inves-
tigation team called Bell-
their movement several times along the way LONDON ingcat linked Bruere to de-
as counter-protesters In the annals of British leted Twitter accounts that
BY ADAM PEMBLE blocked the route and police political protest, the giant spread anti-Semitism and
& KIRSTEN GRIESHABER officers deployed to keep balloon is the current weap- conspiracy theories. And the
them and the marchers on of choice. idea of a Khan balloon was
CHEMNITZ, Germany apart flooded into the street. A month ago, protesters celebrated online by pro-
Police in eastern Ger- The counter-protesters hoisted a giant inflatable of Trump and pro-Brexit
many halted an anti-migra- numbered about 4,000, the President Donald Trump groups, and by anti-Islam
tion protest march that em- state police said. dressed in a diaper and flew commentators in the United
boldened far-right activists The opposing camps it near Parliament — a dem- States and Britain.
started Saturday hoping clashed in Chemnitz on onstration given the green Bruere did not immedi-
would launch a nationwide Monday, the day after the fa- light by London’s mayor. ately respond to a request
movement capable of chal- tal stabbing of the 35-year- MARTIN DIVISEK EFE On Saturday morning, a for comment by Facebook
lenging the political estab- old German citizen and the Police block right-wing protesters in Chemnitz, Ger- Briton who says the mayor, message Saturday about the
lishment. arrests of the migrants on many, on Saturday. Organizers called for several Sadiq Khan, is not doing Bellingcat claims. But he
A trio of nationalist suspicion of manslaughter. such demonstrations over the weekend. enough to fight crime re- told Sky News that the
groups held separate day- Scenes of vigilantes chasing turned the favor and “tweets were taken out of
time rallies in the city of foreigners in the city’s ends of the political spec- ble for an increase in serious launched a giant balloon of context” and admitted the
Chemnitz over the Aug. 26 streets have shocked people trum could be seen drinking crimes, especially attacks on Khan near Westminster. accounts had been deleted
killing of a German citizen, in others parts of Germany beer and shouting slurs at women. The new 29-foot inflat- more than eight months ago.
allegedly by migrants from since then. police. The anti-migrant senti- able is the idea of Yanny To Twitter commenters
Syria and Iraq. The two larg- Police, at times, were un- The tension in the air re- ment has been particularly Bruere, who says he is a free- who called the brown-
est groups also organized a able to control the earlier flected the polarization over strong in Saxony state, tra- speech advocate incensed skinned, hooknosed balloon
joint nighttime march, protests and clashes. Germany’s ongoing effort to ditional strongholds of by rising crime. On his image of Khan a racist cari-
thinking a broader force Leaders of the two come to terms with an influx groups that sought to in- crowdfunding page, he cature, Bruere replied:
might emerge from the dis- groups that combined of more than 1 million ref- spire a nationwide move- wrote: “Under Sadiq Khan, “Should we have made him
play of unity and take hold. forces on Saturday night cul- ugees and migrants seeking ment on Saturday night: the we have seen crime sky- white? Or black? So you
If the number of people tivated a different image for jobs since 2015. Patriotic Europeans rocket to unprecedented lev- could then accuse us of ‘cul-
who attended is any gauge, the “mourning march,” The right blames Chan- Against the Islamization of els. People in London don’t tural appropriation.’”
the envisioned far-right wearing dark suits and car- cellor Angela Merkel’s deci- the West, or PEGIDA, and feel safe and they aren’t safe, He also wrote: “How can I
movement was in the earli- rying white roses. sion to allow in hundreds of the far-right Alternative for 81 murders this year alone! be ‘far right’ for doing the
est of embryonic stages. It However, the mood at the thousands of asylum-seekers Germany party, which has Khan Out.” EXACT same thing the
drew about 4,500 participa- event bringing together pre- from war-torn countries like won seats in federal and The balloon depicted a Trump organizers did?”
nts, Saxony state police re- viously isolated clusters of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan state parliaments with an scowling Khan lying on his By Saturday, the crowd-
ported before citing security nationalists — from lawmak- for multiple problems. Some anti-Muslim platform. side, one hand behind his funding page had raised
concerns as the reason for ers to Hitler-saluting skin- far-right supporters argued head, wearing a yellow bi- more than 59,000 pounds,
ending the event early. heads — darkened as the before the killing in Chemnitz Pemble and Grieshaber write for kini. over $76,000, for Bruere’s
The demonstrators sun set. People from both that migrants are responsi- The Associated Press. The mayor brushed aside “Make London Safe Again”
the planned balloon launch campaign.
in a segment on ITV London After a long period of
PAID ADVERTISEMENT on Thursday, saying: “If peo- steady declines in violent
ple want to spend their Sat- crime, London has experi-
urday looking at me in a yel- enced a spike this year, with
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intent of the launch were Times.

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