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From: Mark Swindells <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 7:26 PM
Subject: (unknown)
report from AOL on oldham & ANL demo
HUNDREDS GATHER OVER NF OLDHAM MARCH THREAT
Hundreds of Anti-Nazi League supporters have gathered in Oldham following
threats of a march by the National Front.
The early afternoon demonstration by the extremist far right group failed to
materialise but there was still a heavy police presence on the streets.
At the peak of the Anti-Nazi League rally, up to 300 activists from as far
afield as Yorkshire and Newcastle congregated outside Oldham Civic Centre.
The demonstration broke up shortly after 4pm.
Passing motorists were asked to honk their horns in support of the
demonstration which was addressed by trade unionists and councillors from
the local Asian community.
The only sign of trouble came when a driver hurled abuse at the crowd from a
silver hatchback car. He was quickly moved on by police.
A Greater Manchester police spokeswoman later said two white youths were
arrested after being stopped and searched while getting out of the car
behind the Civic Centre. They were found in possession of a cellar taped
roll of 30 1 pence coins wrapped in white cloths bearing the words Combat
18.
Earlier, hundreds of police officers congregated in a car park next to
Oldham Athletic's Boundary Park Ground.
Some 30 vans, many fitted with riot shields, and two trucks of police horses
were assembled on the waste ground.
The National Front had threatened to march through the town just days after
the British National Party achieved their best ever Parliamentary result -
winning a combined total of more than 11,000 votes in two Oldham
constituencies.
The party's election success, which dismayed members of the town's Asian
communities came less than two weeks after vicious racially fuelled riots.
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