SIXTEEN neo-Nazis were arrested during a demonstration supporting the jailed lead singer of a banned skinhead rock group, Berlin police said, amid concerns far-right extremists are becoming more active and more violent.Some 750 neo-Nazis and other far-right supporters turned out yesterday outside of a Berlin prison to call for the release of Michael Regener, who has been jailed since 2003, when a Berlin court found his rock band Landser, or Foot Soldiers, guilty of spreading hate in their songs against Jews and foreigners.
The demonstration was organised by the far-right National Democratic Party, which last month won representation in the state legislature of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.