The World - News from April 9, 1989
Bottle-throwing demonstrators clashed with police at a rally of the right-wing Republican Party in central West Germany. A police spokesman said 17 people, including two police officers, were injured and seven demonstrators were arrested during the fighting in Grossostheim. About 1,400 people attended the demonstration, which was organized by an anti-rightist group that accuses the Republicans of being neo-fascist. The Republican Party, campaigning to stop a growing influx of political asylum-seekers into West Germany, won an unexpected 7.5% of the vote in January’s elections for the West Berlin city parliament.
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