Police detained 396 radicals, including 96 Slovaks and Germans, during the Saturday clashes between anarchists and neo-Nazis, the Prague police spokeswoman Eva Brozova said Sunday, according to dpa. The detained were questioned and then released. Nearly 200 will be charged with misdemeanours. The police confiscated many weapons, including guns, batons and knives. In all, medics treated seven people, including one policeman, for head injuries sustained in the street fighting Saturday, CTK news agency reported citing the Prague emergency service director. Prague Mayor Pavel Bem told reporters that 300 to 400 neo-Nazis arrived in the Czech capital on Saturday with the intention to march through its historic Jewish Quarter on the anniversary of Nazi Germany's Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jews. A police presence of 1615 officers on the streets barred most neo-Nazis from getting anywhere near the historic Jewish district, stopping them in metro stations and elsewhere. Two busloads of German right-wing extremists, who never reached the city centre, returned to Germany, Brozova said. Some 1,000 anarchists, some German-speaking, gathered in the city to protest the banned neo-Nazi march, chasing and beating up the few neo-Nazis who made it downtown. Forty anarchists armed with sticks were detained after they turned against the police who tried to break up the isolated brawls, Brozova added.
