Anti Nazi demo and PM bites on Arrow Cross anniversary

• published: 21 Jul 2015
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SHOTLIST 1. Wide demonstration 2. Various people gathering 3. Police 4. People marching 5. People being arrested for general rowdiness - they were shouting, "Down with Nazis" 6. Woman being arrested 7. People being led away, one is struggling, they are led around to be pushed up against the wall 8. Police in foreground 9. Emergency vehicles in background 10. Marchers including Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany walking carrying white flowers 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ferenc Gyurcsany, Hungarian Prime Minister: "We would like to assure the people, to assure the nation, that we do not let the extremists have any impact on the peace of the country." 12. Pan from stage to crowd listening 13. Crowd 14. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Margit Kovari, Ghetto survivor: "The minutes during the proclamation (of Szalasi government which people thought would to end fascist era) were filled with joy. My mother and I at eight years old, we really believed, that our days of trial were over but at night we heard the chants of 'long live Szalasi' and the thugs filled the streets and there was no escaping. The yellow starred houses remained. My mum was taken away and my 12 year old brother was taken away. And I stayed in the ghetto with my 80 year old grandmother." 15. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Gizella Szabo, Ghetto survivor: "On the banks of the Danube (river which flows through Budapest), that's where the executions were, we heard the screams. The blood flowed on the streets and while you can't say enough, it was horrible. There is no family that didn't have some loss or another and they took us all into the ghetto." 16. Police 17. People holding banners STORYLINE Hundreds of people attended an anti-fascist protest in Budapest on Friday, organised by the centre-left governing parties and several human rights and Jewish groups. Another rally that was to have been held simultaneously by a neo-Nazi group - and which prompted the leftist counter-protest - was cancelled after authorities stifled the Hungarian Future Group's plans on a technicality. Budapest officials on Thursday issued a permit to the youth wing of the Alliance of Free Democrats, one of the parties in the government coalition, giving them use of the public space where the neo-Nazi group wanted to hold its rally. But police allow only one protest to take place in the same place at the same time, and the Hungarian Future Group was forced to abort its memorial of the 60th anniversary of the October 15, 1944 coup by the Arrow Cross Party. Arrow Cross leader Ferenc Szalasi briefly ruled Hungary at the end of World War II. Nearly 100,000 Budapest Jews were killed by the Arrow Cross regime. Szalasi's Hungarist movement aimed to make Hungary the region's hegemonic nation and had guidelines about racial purity similar to those of Nazi Germany. Szalasi and many other Arrow Cross members were executed after the war. Newly elected Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany attended the anti-fascist rally. Before he arrived, there were a few arrests of people due to rowdiness, but there did not appear to be fascist elements at the protest. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c1be386355d39a086751fe6db4c37281 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork