{"id":287726,"date":"2016-12-29T19:54:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T18:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/police-ban-german-far-right-new-years-eve-protest-in-cologne\/"},"modified":"2016-12-29T19:54:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T18:54:53","slug":"police-ban-german-far-right-new-years-eve-protest-in-cologne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/police-ban-german-far-right-new-years-eve-protest-in-cologne\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Ban German Far-Right New Year\u2019s Eve Protest in Cologne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Police in Cologne have banned the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) from holding a demonstration at the Cologne cathedral square on New Year\u2019s Eve over safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The far-right party had intended to hold a demonstration at the scene of the mass sex attacks which occurred on New Year\u2019s Eve of last year. The party had made a formal request via a private individual to hold the demonstration, but police expressed doubts that the safety of the participants or of the public could be maintained,\u00a0<em>Der Spiegel<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/koeln-polizei-verbietet-npd-demonstration-an-silvester-am-dom-a-1127675.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police gave a statement on the matter saying that holding the event could lead to \u201cserious threats to public security, which can not be countered.\u201d The NPD still reserve the right to protest the ban through an administrative process, but it is unknown if the ban could be overturned by New Year\u2019s Eve on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ban on the demonstration, the Cologne branch of the NPD still advertises the New Year\u2019s Eve protest on their Facebook page. The event, entitled \u201cRally: Because an arm\u2019s length distance is not longer sufficient,\u201d is a clear attack on controversial\u00a0Cologne mayor Henriette Reker who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/01\/07\/world-view-german-code-of-conduct-for-women-shows-pendulum-swing-on-gender-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> women to defend themselves against migrant attackers by \u201ckeeping them at arm\u2019s length.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even if the event were not banned, the turnout would likely be low as the Facebook event page shows only 42 people going and a further 193 interested in the event.<\/p>\n<p>The NPD have been accused of breaching the German constitution for over a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/police-ban-german-far-right-new-year-s-eve-protest-in-cologne\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Cologne have banned the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) from holding a demonstration at the Cologne cathedral square on New Year\u2019s Eve over safety concerns. The far-right party had intended to hold a demonstration at the scene of the mass sex attacks which occurred on New Year\u2019s Eve of last year. The party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}