Neo-Nazis sent packing from Scots town by anti-hate counter-protest
dailyrecord.co.ukNeo-Nazi have been sent packing from a Scottish town after they found themselves outnumbered by anti-hate campaigners.A handful of hate figures from alt-right group Highland Division gathered in Elgin on Saturday in a bid to stir up hate and resentment towards refugees who have settled in the town.
But a vibrant counter-protest organised by local trade unions saw at least 200 people turn out to drown out their hate speech.The group had invited far-right activist Alek Yerbury – a former soldier who dresses like Oswald Mosley and Adolf Hitler – from the north of England to speak.
But the alt-right figure, who has launched a 'supergroup' of hate figures called the National Support Detachment, was unable to speak due thanks to the efforts of locals opposed to hate.
The neo-Nazis, some of whom cannot be identified for legal reasons, gathered on Elgin's High Street. One wore a vest bearing the slogan "White Lives Matter" – a racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement – while another wore a belt buckle in the shape of a Nazi infantry division.They then unfurled a banner bearing a white supremacist slogan popularised by David Lane, a Ku Klux Klan member.
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