Far-Right Groups Push Back as Protesters Rally in Europe
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Far-Right Groups Push Back as Protesters Rally in Europe
LONDON — Thousands of people rallied against police brutality and racism in European cities like London and Paris on Saturday, punctuating a week of protests across the continent that included destruction of statues linked to slavery and demands for a reckoning with racial discrimination.
As European protesters have shown solidarity with demonstrators in the United States in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month, they have also denounced their own countries’ problems and urged the authorities to address them.
But even as protesters gathered en masse to demand stronger measures against racism, far-right groups and protesters, most of them white, have fiercely pushed back, leading to chaotic episodes of violence on Saturday.
The situation grew especially tense in London, where crowds of white male counterprotestors clashed repeatedly with the police, who had imposed restrictions on the anti-racism marches because of concerns about the potential for violence.
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