Aborted neo-Nazi march at Kapuzinerplatz

My husband and I had a meeting on Tumblingerstr. tonight at 6:30... Anyway... We parked our car pretty far away from the house (near the "Arbeitsamt") so we could look around a little. We walked over Kapuzinerstr., throught Kapuzinerplatz into Tumblingerstr. and everything was normal people moving around cars everywhere just like another day and another meeting. We had our meeting, then left the house started walking back to our car. I noticed it was unusualy quiet for such a busy area then I saw gates in the street as we walked twords Kapuzinerplatz... We walked through the gates with the aproval of the police and it as about the freakiest feeling I have ever had. Everything was silent and there were MANY police standing around in heavy gear looking VERY serious... I couldnt wait to just get in my car and go home. We ended up getting on Lindwurmstr. and the road was blocked. all of the sudden we saw a HUGE sea of people dressed in blak many with half of their faces covered putting on bright orange stickers and just kind of haning out where ever they wanted to. What the hell was it? My husband (german guy) said it was just neo-nazis having a party and took it very lightly like every thing was normal. Anyone know the facts about what was going on? I guess it made me want to just stay inside for the rest of the night... I have lived here for about 3 years and have never seen this. I should have just asked the police but I was kind of afraid of them... so i just kept walking ,)

The newly elected NPD BurgerInitiative Ausländerstopp councillor decided to try and organise a march and protest against Munich City Council funding an anti fascist archive. It was also intended as a provocative march against a local community centre and through an area of Munich with a high migrant, gay, leftish inclined working class population.

A broad spectrum of the community did their best to resist the fascists.

The atmosphere is pretty tense round there right now but should be back to more chilled next week.

what? I guess I am not getting it... it sounds like alot of drama... it there another way to put it... lol

ok after reading your reply 100 times... and using Wikipedia I got it. Is it safe to go out in that area tommorow night? Honestly We stayed home tonight because I was freakd out... Or how long is it supposed to go for? or is it noting to be afraid of... hmmm...

I'd leave off going out round there over the weekend tbh.

I'm not a scaredy cat by any means and I protested already when people I know advised me a couple of times to not head out around there the last couple of days alone. Bu one put it bluntly: these weren't out of town fascists bussed in for the day. They are from Munich.

Things will be back to normal next week hopefully.

All these Neo-Nazis should be forced to visit the Eagles Nest (Hitler Bunker) and watch the shown movies for 24 hours. Maybe this would change their minds, but then they may not have any brains in the first place, otherwise they wouldn't be Neo-Nazis.

For those who haven't been there, the videos are so brutal and don't hide anything, hard to take. Depressing and upsetting.

I saw the same when walking through Goetheplatz on Friday evening: a large group of people dressed in black surging around and throwing bottles, surrounded by a huge number of serious looking police. Does that kind of thing happen much?

Bloody hell. That's the end of my street and I noticed nothing!

its round the corner from me and Peter too and we saw nothing. there can't have been very many of them and they must have been quiet. Either that or the noise of Lindwurmstrasse blanked them out.

Anyone with their face covered won't have been a Neonazi btw -- you're not allowed to cover your face in a demonstration (Vermummungsverbot) and the Nazis are very korrekt about the legalities of demos. Those'll have been the counterdemonstrators, more or less left, more or less threatening-looking themselves... so that "sea of people" must've been the counterdemonstrators. Typical for this town is 40 Nazis and 200 anti-Nazis.

I live around the corner and only saw that the street was blocked off, nothing more.

Just because there was a huge sea of people dressed in black doesn't mean there's a sudden right-wing upsurge - the anti-fascist protestors usually also wear black. There was a NPD rally where I used to live and when I sent along to see, the streets seemed to be full of suprisingly young people all wearing a sinister black uniform. Turned out they were the good guys. There were only 40 real NPD people, 1500 antifa protestors (and of course 3000 riot cops spending my taxes...)

I wouldn't complain about the extra police presence in this case...