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[Miles Quaritch]

A man was stabbed as dozens of 'Polish neo-Nazis' stormed a free music event sparking violent clashes in a north London park, witnesses said.

Flares, rocks and glass bottles were thrown during an "unprovoked attack" in Tottenham on Saturday night.

A 24-year-old man Polish man was knifed during the violence after a neo-Nazi group disrupted a free Music Day festival of around 150 people in Markfield Park. Anti-fascist campaigners said up to 40 neo-Nazis had planned an event of their own nearby but stormed the family music event.

Video footage of the clashes show a single female police officer at the scene as thugs hurl missiles, light fires and hurl abuse.

Witness Oz Katerji, a journalist, tweeted: "About 150 of us were having a party in Markfield Park in Tottenham, Neo-nazi polish fascists turn up, full scale riot operation.

"Unprovoked assault at a licensed event, children present, maybe about 10-20 skins turned up and started a riot," he added.

Haringey Green Party claimed the attack was carried out by members of the Zjednoczeni Emigranci (ZE) fascist group, which is alleged to have ties to football hooliganism and neo-Nazism in Poland.

A statement from the Greens said: "Taking the peaceful community event by surprise, ZE launched an unprovoked attack, hurling verbal abuse at locals, intimidating the children and families that were present, before turning to physical violence. Footage from the community event shows ZE launching rocks and flares at the crowd."

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...s-storm-tottenham-music-festival-9556346.html

There's a video at the link.

What the fuck? I didn't even know there was a Polish extreme far right/neo nazi problem here.

 

[Certinty]

Doesn't surprise me that it happened in Tottenham.

 

[xbhaskarx]

I don't understand these Polish / Russian / Ukrainian / etc. neo-Nazis... do they not know about the real Nazis in World War II?

 

[ItAintEasyBeinCheesy]

So did a Nazi get stabbed or was one of the people at the music festival also Polish and not a Nazi?

I need to know so I can know how to feel about this.

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

 

[justjohn]

A polish nazi is a bit like a Jewish nazi. Do they teach history in Poland or are these people just fucking idiots? How can you link yourself to an organization that killed millions of your countrymen?

 

[Miles Quaritch]

A Polish guy was stabbed, but there's no news on if he was part of the group attacking the event.

http://www.tottenhamjournal.co.uk/n..._tottenham_community_music_festival_1_3652881

They also apparently assaulted a Jewish chap.

 

[mario_O]

There are Nazis in Poland? what the fuck

 

[sphagnum]

I don't know why people are surprised that there could be Polish fascists. Eastern Europe is one of the biggest areas for fascist activity.

 

[SlickShoesRUCrazy]

Jackasses

 

[block tower]

Ten guys jump one, what a man
You fight each other, the police state wins
Stab your backs when you trash our halls
Trash a bank if you've got real balls

You still think swastikas look cool
The real nazis run your schools
They're coaches, businessmen and cops
In a real fourth reich you'll be the first to go

 

[Doczu]

I don't understand these Polish / Russian / Ukrainian / etc. neo-Nazis... do they not know about the real Nazis in World War II?

I dont know much about the more eastern guys, but the polish ones are more nationalists/hooligans than nazi's. They would punch you right in the face for calling them that (and i do know a lot of them). It's a shorthand of the media. It's easier to call them nazi's than "stupid hooligans, who hate everything and everyone, made a mess". Still, they should rot for what they did.

 

[sphagnum]

I don't understand these Polish / Russian / Ukrainian / etc. neo-Nazis... do they not know about the real Nazis in World War II?

Collapse of internationalism and socialism -> anti-liberals who turn to nationalism to find solidarity in the face of capitalism. Fascism is the opposite of socialism, so when socialism collapsed fascism and nationalism grew to fill the void for those who object to capitalism ideologically or were left behind in the changing economic systems (particularly in Russia, where the whole economic system collapsed due to shock therapy).

They aren't all necessarily "Nazis", like how Golden Dawn aren't actually Nazis, they're nationalists who lift their iconography and style from more famous fascist groups.

 

[block tower]

Collapse of internationalism and socialism -> anti-liberals who turn to nationalism to find solidarity in the face of capitalism. Fascism is the opposite of socialism, so when socialism collapsed fascism and nationalism grew to fill the void for those who object to capitalism ideologically or were left behind in the changing economic systems (particularly in Russia, where the whole economic system collapsed due to shock therapy).

They aren't all necessarily "Nazis", like how Golden Dawn aren't actually Nazis, they're nationalists who lift their iconography and style from more famous fascist groups.

it always starts out a pseudo-fascists group gaining some ground in the political sphere. these euro countries should be very wary of allowing this type of ideology a leg to stand on. the old Nazi 1933 speeches stand out as being great examples of fascism being allowed too much of a platform to sway a struggling public.

 

[Polk]

Emigrant nationalist/facist groups is really strange concept.

 

[Doczu]

Collapse of internationalism and socialism -> anti-liberals who turn to nationalism to find solidarity in the face of capitalism. Fascism is the opposite of socialism, so when socialism collapsed fascism and nationalism grew to fill the void for those who object to capitalism ideologically or were left behind in the changing economic systems (particularly in Russia, where the whole economic system collapsed due to shock therapy).

They aren't all necessarily "Nazis", like how Golden Dawn aren't actually Nazis, they're nationalists who lift their iconography and style from more famous fascist groups.

You don't have to educate me about the fall of socialism (which is still healthy in Poland) and communism (thank god) and the rise of right wing extremists.
We do have some niche, hardcore gropus like the Golden Dawn which use nazi iconography, but they are no ones.

 

[sphagnum]

You don't have to educate me about the fall of socialism (which is still healthy in Poland) and communism (thank god) and the rise of right wing extremists.
We do have some niche, hardcore gropus like the Golden Dawn which use nazi iconography, but they are no ones.

I was responding to xbhaskarx.

 

[Doczu]

I was responding to xbhaskarx.

God, need more coffee... Well sorry, thought you quoted me

 

[daxy]

I don't understand these Polish / Russian / Ukrainian / etc. neo-Nazis... do they not know about the real Nazis in World War II?

The Polish should understand the terror of Nazism better than any other European country considering their history. I doubt these uneducated kids understand of Nazism beyond the part where they're not down with Jews.

 

[MisterGrey3000]

Yep.
:/

 

[TheJLC]

So how did it end?

 

[sixteen-bit]

smh

 

[Marvel]

There are Nazis in Poland? what the fuck

Pretty much my reaction.

 

[dan2026]

'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'

 

[Kapsama]

So hold up I must be missing something here. These guys are Polish nationals who emigrated to another country and joined a Polish right wing extremist group? Comedy writes itself nowadays.

 

[MacNille]

I think that the brittsh neonazi are pissed now. "It is WE who fuck up people around here mate"

 

[PetriP-TNT]

I think that the brittsh neonazi are pissed now. "It is WE who fuck up people around here mate"

u wot m8