BERLIN, GERMANY, August 23, 2008: About 150 supporters of Germany’s far-right National Democratic Party demonstrated on Saturday in Berlin against the building of a Hindu temple. Construction work on the Hindu temple is scheduled to begin early next year, in the multi-ethnic district of Neukoelln in south Berlin.
A member of an extreme-right group, who had been subject to an arrest warrant, was seized during the neo-Nazi rally, according to a Berlin police spokesperson. At the same time, about 500 people staged a protest against the NPD demonstration. In total, eight people were arrested during the two rallies, for which 800 policemen were mobilized.