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World Jewish News
Czech police arrest and expel ex-Ku Klux Klan leader
27.04.2009
David Duke, a former US Ku Klux Klan leader, was arrested in a restaurant in the Czech capital Prague and later deported. The former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was detained on suspicion of promoting movements seeking the suppression of human rights, a Czech police spokesman told media. Reportedly, Duke was guarded at the restaurant's entrance by militants belonging to a known far-right group 'Narodni Odpor' (National Resistance). He was later ordered to leave the country, and police said that no charges would be brought against him.
Two Czech government ministers had expressed disapproval of the Duke visit earlier in the week. The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by a group of US Civil War veterans. It is notorious the world over for terrorizing black Americans through lynchings, cross burnings and other hate crimes. The group enjoyed a peak membership of about five million in 1925, including politicians and judges. However, the Klan went into virtual bankruptcy as early as the late 1920s and since the late 1970s, its membership has stood at between 3,000 and 6,000.
Источник: WJC
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