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• Newspapers report about 16 March

According to the police estimates, about 1,500-2,000 persons took part in the procession in the centre of Riga on 16 March commemorating Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires, laying flowers to the Freedom Monument. Nationalist MPs also took part in the procession. A protest meeting against the procession was held next to the monument. MEP from Latvia Tatjana Zdanoka and representative of Latvian Anti-Fascist Centre Iosifs Korens laid a wreath with ribbon „In the memory of Nazism victims” to the monument. Organisers of the commemorative event covered this wreath with a plackard depicting enlarged chevron of the legion, removed the ribbon and called the police when Tatjana Zdanoka and Iosifs Korens tried to restore the wreath.

According to the police estimates, about 1,500-2,000 persons took part in the procession in the centre of Riga on 16 March commemorating Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires, laying flowers to the Freedom Monument. Nationalist MPs also took part in the procession. A protest meeting against the procession was held next to the monument. MEP from Latvia Tatjana Zdanoka and representative of Latvian Anti-Fascist Centre Iosifs Korens laid a wreath with ribbon „In the memory of Nazism victims to the monument. Organisers of the commemorative event covered this wreath with a plackard depicting enlarged chevron of the legion, removed the ribbon and called the police when Tatjana Zdanoka and Iosifs Korens tried to restore the wreath. Chas, Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga, Vesti Segodnya