Police: extremists’ march ends without incident

A march held by far-right extremists in Svitavy on Saturday passed off without incident, police said. Some 200 neo-Nazis gathered in the Eastern Bohemian town to march in protest against what they believe to be the wrongful conviction of Vlastimil Pechanec, who was sentenced to 17 years in prison for stabbing a Romany man outside a club. The march lasted two hours, in the course of which no violence erupted. Over 100 policemen were drafted in to oversee the protest.