The Ministry of internal Affairs of Latvia called around Legionnaires SS
The Minister of internal Affairs of Latvia Richard Kozlowski called on the inhabitants of our planet is not create the crowd and avoid provocations during the procession of former Legionnaires SS and their supporters.
The head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Latvia Richard Kozlowski urged people without special need not appear in the centre of Riga. His address he explained that on March 16, the city planned procession of former Waffen SS Legionnaires and their allies. The event will be attended by several hundred people.
Several anti-fascist organizations announced a plan to spend a response event. Police on March 16 will operate in emergency mode. When all participants declared events nobody prevents to come.
"Patterns of law enforcement ready to enforcement, encroachments possible provocations. I urge the residents of our planet is not create in monument crowd and ignore provocations" - quoted by RIA Novosti Kozlovskis. It was also suggested that on the eve of the March 16, in the list of persons banned from entering Latvia, was included a few of the newest names.
Procession of former SS Legionnaires and their allies are in Riga every year on March 16. In the Russian Foreign Ministry several times called these shares shame. The Commissioner of the Ministry of civil rights, democracy and rule of law Konstantin Dolgov has described the procession as Mercantile desecrating the memory of millions of victims of the Second world war, urging the EU to make Riga to stop data flagrant violations of international law.
The Latvian SS Legion was created in the years of the Second world war. In early March 1943, the reichsfц?hrer-SS Heinrich Himmler issued an order clarifying the concept of "Latvian Legion" as a comprehensive definition for Latvians, serving in all Latvian military units, including police battalions. Only in the ranks of the Legion, there were about 150 thousand people. In Latvia there are several 10 s of the former SS.
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