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Czech ultra-right party launches EP run by burning EU flag

26 March 2014
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Roughly 10 followers of the Workers’ Social Justice Party (Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti – DSSS) arrived this past Saturday for the start of an election rally in the center of Prague to show their support for DSSS chair Tomáš Vandas, who was launching his campaign for the European Parliament. Their first symbolic step in the EP elections was to burn the EU flag.   

About 20 mostly young people also came to watch the DSSS campaign launch and express their disagreement with the party’s activities. The young people expressed their opinion of the presence of the "workers" on the square in Prague by chanting anti-fascist slogans and whistling prior to the start of the party chair’s speech. 

The event was monitored by police officers in uniform and by detectives who filmed the whole thing. As soon as the police officers began asking some of the anti-fascists for their identification, Vandas took advantage of the opportunity to speak.

The "NO TO RACISM!" (NE RASISMU!) initiative has published the following description of the DSSS chair’s speech on its website:  "It was a typical speech of the kind we have heard many times before. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants pose a threat to us, Muslims are destroying ‘our’ Christian culture, and mainly, the Czech crown should rise above all. Vandas’s daring plan is to disorganize the EU from within. His chances of election must certainly be great, as the number of those listening to him was as high as 20 people at some moments, including the tourists walking by (but not the anti-fascists…). " 

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