Police consider risky the planned demonstration of some 100 supporters of the National Party at the entrance to the Prague Exhibition Grounds and a demonstration of supporters of the Communist Party (KSCM) in Wenceslas Square, Bernasek said. Police will also closely monitor a meeting of some 150 supporters of the extreme right who will gather on Prague's Strelecky Island in Troops leave for Comoros assault ...
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Czech Greens negotiate with Communists on Svejnar ... the morning on May 1 from where they want to march along Prague's streets to Old Town Square, he said. Several hundred neo-Nazis will gather at Prague's Vitkov memorial at noon.
They also plan a march, Bernasek said. The police would monitor these events and would be ready to intervene immediately if need be, he said. He said the number of officially announced events was high this year also because the Prague Jewish Community alone will stage two dozen rallies on May Day in the streets in the vicinity of the historical Jewish Quarter. The community announced its numerous events to the authorities long beforehand in an effort to prevent other groups, especially extremist, from staging events similar to last November's march planned by Neo-Nazis through the Jewish Quarter. Protests by the public and politicians finally thwarted the march.
(Ceske Noviny)
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