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Waffen-SS veterans march in Latvian capital Riga
16 MARS 2013

Since 20 years, hundreds of Latvians commemorate Waffen-SS on March 16th in the capital Riga. This year, 1,500 led by former Latvian Waffen-SS and lawmakers from the far right party National Alliance walked through the city to lay flowers at the Freedom Monument.

The tense was particularly high this year: protest rally organized by the International Human Rights Movement "World Without Nazism" was attacked by Waffen-SS supporters, EJP co-chairman Joël Rubinfeld was expelled by the police, president of "Latvian Alliance against Nazism" and Riga City Council Member Janis Kuzins was physically assaulted by a Neo-Nazi.

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Fascist Flashback: Nazi vets parade in Latvia dividing society
RT | 16 MARS 2013

Latvian veterans who fought alongside German Nazis during World War Two have held their annual march through the capital. With the mood traditionally intense there were a number of arrests after the leader of a local anti-fascist group was beaten up. The parade's distinct nationalist tone and clear Nazi references also raised concern outside Latvia.

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INTERVIEW
La marche des Waffen-SS lettons
RADIO JUDAÏCA | 19 MARS 2013

Le 19 mars 2013, Joël Rubinfeld était l'invité de Maurice Blibaum dans l'émission «La vérité, rien que la vérité» sur Radio Judaïca, pour y parler de la marche des Waffen-SS lettons qui chaque année, le 16 mars, se déroule dans le coeur de la capitale lettonne, Riga.

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DANS LA PRESSE
Ex-Israeli lawmaker dies in Latvia hours after anti-Nazi rally
JTA | 17 MARS 2013

Marina Solodkin, a former Israeli lawmaker, died of what appeared to be natural causes in Latvia, hours after attending a protest rally against a large neo-Nazi gathering. Solodkin was found dead Saturday night in her hotel room at the FG Royal Hotel in central Riga. She was 60.

Solodkin, a Kadima lawmaker whose Knesset term ended in January, arrived in Latvia over the weekend to attend a roundtable discussion with European Union representatives and nongovernmental agencies fighting xenophobia. The meeting coincided with the annual Waffen SS March on Saturday by hundreds of neo-Nazis through the streets of Riga.

Joel Rubinfeld, co-chair of the European Jewish Parliament, also attended the roundtable discussions and staged a counter demonstration with Solodkin and approximately 30 others in the area where approximately 1,500 neo-Nazis were marching. «There was some violence by neo-Nazis and it was a stressful time, but she seemed fine», Rubinfeld told JTA. «It appears her death was of natural causes». «It is a sad day. Marina was committed to the cause of the Jewish people right until her last breath».

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VIDÉO
Legionaru pieminas diena
TV3 | 16 MARS 2013

On TV3, the most popular channel in Latvia, the evening news report presented the protest rally against the Waffen SS march as an «anti-fascist provocation»...

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DANS LA PRESSE
Aufmarsch für Waffen-SS
JUNGE WELT | 18 MARS 2013

In Lettland gelten Prioritäten: Wenn es darum geht, die Angehörigen der lettischen Waffen-SS-Einheiten zu ehren, haben kritisierende Juden den Platz zu räumen. Und so wurde Joel Rubinfeld, Vorsitzender des europäisch-jüdischen Parlaments mit Sitz in Brüssel, am Sonnabend von der Polizei gewaltsam vom Freiheitsdenkmal in der Stadtmitte von Riga geführt, kurz bevor die ersten von 1500 Teilnehmern einer nationalistischen Demonstration eintrafen. Die waren zu ihrem jährlichen Marsch zu Ehren der «Lettischen Legion» angetreten, die 1943 auf Anordnung von Hitler aufgestellt worden war. Zuvor hatte Rubinfeld gemeinsam mit Aktivisten der Vereinigung «Lettland ohne Nazismus» einen Kranz zu Ehren von Naziopfern niedergelegt.

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