and islamists rioted, and the city government says
About a kilometer away, several thousand peaceful demonstrators listened as Cologne's mayor Fritz Schramma stood up outside the city's great cathedral to denounce the far-right rally.
City and national German authorities detest the rightists, but say they must allow them the right of free speech.
Schramma described those who bent on holding the far-right rally as "racists in bourgeois dress" and "the moldy clique of Euro-Fascism," adding: "I say, there is the door. Go home!"
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Cologne Mayor Schramma, who has personally backed the mosque project, welcomed the rally ban.
"It's a victory for the city of Cologne and a victory by the democratic forces in this city," he told Dpa news agency.
Yeah, this was a real 'victory for democracy', all right; a victory for mob rule. How were the protesters protesting?
The leftists, who were bent on occupying a city square set aside for the rightists to use, assaulted police and tried to snatch their pistols. Riot police advanced against them, swinging batons.
At Heumarkt, the square set aside for the rightists, the far left attacked roadblocks at several places and scuffled with riot police, but were repulsed.
"We had to crack down hard to avoid something worse happening," a police spokesman said. Reporters saw two men being detained. A police officer was hurt in the face when a firecracker was thrown at him.
Expecting trouble, riot police kept water-cannon trucks that can knock a man to the ground at 30 meters at the ready.
A police spokesman said the leftists were no longer attacking in small groups but in large formations.
Yup. Real victory for democracy there, folks. And note the bullcrap from the mayor about 'racists'. I realize it scrapes on your PC At Any Cost feelings, mayor, but islam is a religion, not a race. And you're a moron.
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