By IRNA,
Berlin : Around 250 neo-Nazis were arrested on Saturday for staging an illegal May Day rally in Berlin’s city center, according to the press.
Those arrested were reportedly taken away by several busses after police surrounded the far-right group, among them neo-Nazis from Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic, in Berlin’s Kurfuerstendamm district for gathering illegally away from an earlier authorized demonstration route.
Fearing bloody street clashes, police separated radical leftist and neo-Nazi militants who spent hours vying for control of May Day demonstration routes through the German capital.
Thousands of counter demonstrators staged sit-ins and blocked streets, forcing neo-Nazis to cut short their planned demonstrations in Berlin.
The demonstration route had been approved by police under German laws protecting the constitutional right of everyone to demonstrate.