Germany: More than 5,000 people marched through Nuremberg on Saturday to protest against a neo-Nazi demonstration marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Allied post-war trials in the southern German city.
Rotten vegetables and bottles flew as the two groups met briefly, but a police spokesman said there was no serious violence, although officers took around 20 left-wing and 20 right-wing demonstrators into protective custody.
"Nuremberg can never again be allowed be a place for racists, anti-Semites and Holocaust denier," said Mayor Ulrich Maly to the demonstrators referring to the city's numerous associations with the Nazi regime.
From 1935 the city has hosted the infamous Nazi rallies at the fairground outside the city - a tourist attraction to this day. Nazi laws that stripped German Jews of their citizenship and rights were also named after the city.
Autumn is traditionally a busy time for German neo-Nazis, taking advantage of their right to demonstrate guaranteed in laws created in the post-war years in reaction to Nazi restrictions of public protest.
The marches of the neo-Nazi groups are generally small affairs, with marchers outnumbered by police escorts. It was no different on Saturday in Nuremberg, where 200 neo-Nazis skinheads marched through the city under the motto "Justice not Revenge: Revision of the Nuremberg Trials".
It is 60 years since the 12 surviving Nazi leaders were sentenced to death in court 600 of the Nuremberg courthouse, seen as the birth of international justice. At the same time, 180 neo-Nazis marching through Hamburg were countered by 1,500 anti-Nazi demonstrators.