Civil War in Charlottesville / USA: Neo Nazis X People X Immigrants
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Civil War in Charlottesville / USA: Neo Nazis X People X Immigrants
At least one person died and 33 others were injured in a protest of white supremacists in the university town of Charlottesville, Virginia.
During the confrontation, a man ran over a group of people protesting against the far-right march of the USA, which is against blacks, immigrants, gays and Jews. The victim, who according to US media reports a 32-year-old woman, did not have the identity disclosed.
In addition, two police officers died in the fall of a helicopter near the site of the clashes. The information was confirmed by the Charlottesville Police Department.
According to police reports, after the agents dispersed the protesters, a car hit several people on the street.
Arrested
According to the TMZ website, the driver of the vehicle was James Alex Fields Jr, 20, of Ohio. He has already been arrested and formally charged with second-degree murder. The young man, residing in Maumee (Ohio), is being held at the Albermarle-Charlottesville County jail. The city's chief of police, Al Thomas, told a news conference that the hit was a premeditated act.
Sources at the University of Virginia Hospital reported that 19 others were being treated after being injured in the run-up.
During a confrontation, the city hall declared a state of emergency and, through a statement on Twitter, cited the act as an "imminent civil war". According to Virginia police, some demonstrators were detained during the confrontation.
The city of Charlottesville, which has just over 50,000 residents, was chosen as the scene of the protests after announcing it plans to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a municipal park, according to the BBC.
General Lee was commander of the forces of the Confederate States of America, the union of six separatist states of the South of the United States, during the American Civil War (1861-1865). The Confederate states of the South American sought independence to prevent the abolition of slavery. Even after the final defeat in the conflict, Lee became a symbol of the far-right American movements that still remember him as a hero.
The removal of the statue of Lee was considered as an affront by the right-wing groups, who decided to protest. Several American cities have been paying homage to the Confederate military - which has generated relief, on the one hand, and fury, on the other.
As a precaution, more than a thousand security agents had been deployed, according to Efe, and state governor, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, had asked citizens to stay out of the protest.
On Friday night, hundreds of men and women carried torches, made Nazi greetings and shouted slogans against blacks, immigrants, homosexuals and Jews.
According to the BBC, participants at Friday's protest carried flags and shouted slogans such as "You will not replace us" in reference to immigrants; "White Lives Matter," as opposed to the black movement Black Lives Matter; And "Death to the Antifas", abbreviation of antifascistas, as they are known groups that oppose to neo-Nazi protests.
Black students from the University of Virginia campus and youths posing as antifascists attempted to make a "human wall" to prevent demonstrators from arriving at the final stop on the march, a statue of the third US president, Thomas Jefferson.
Reactions
US President Donald Trump used his official Twitter account to speak out on the confrontation. "We must all be united and condemn everything that represents hate. There is no place for such violence in America.
The first lady of the United States, Melania Trump, also condemned the confrontation on Twitter. "Our country encourages freedom of expression, but we will communicate without hate in our hearts. Nothing good comes from violence, "he said.
Virginia Governor Democrat Terry McAuliffe vehemently condemned the neo-Nazi and racist protesters who were at the protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they clashed with anti-racist groups.
"I have a message for the Nazis and white supremacists, go home and never come back, you are not wanted in this community." They pretend to be patriots, but they are nothing of the sort Patriots are [the former presidents] George Washington and Thomas Jefferson , Which united the country.Lead their hatred and intolerance though, "said McAuliffe, saying that the United States is a" nation of immigrants
At least one person died and 33 others were injured in a protest of white supremacists in the university town of Charlottesville, Virginia.
During the confrontation, a man ran over a group of people protesting against the far-right march of the USA, which is against blacks, immigrants, gays and Jews. The victim, who according to US media reports a 32-year-old woman, did not have the identity disclosed.
In addition, two police officers died in the fall of a helicopter near the site of the clashes. The information was confirmed by the Charlottesville Police Department.
According to police reports, after the agents dispersed the protesters, a car hit several people on the street.
Arrested
According to the TMZ website, the driver of the vehicle was James Alex Fields Jr, 20, of Ohio. He has already been arrested and formally charged with second-degree murder. The young man, residing in Maumee (Ohio), is being held at the Albermarle-Charlottesville County jail. The city's chief of police, Al Thomas, told a news conference that the hit was a premeditated act.
Sources at the University of Virginia Hospital reported that 19 others were being treated after being injured in the run-up.
During a confrontation, the city hall declared a state of emergency and, through a statement on Twitter, cited the act as an "imminent civil war". According to Virginia police, some demonstrators were detained during the confrontation.
The city of Charlottesville, which has just over 50,000 residents, was chosen as the scene of the protests after announcing it plans to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a municipal park, according to the BBC.
General Lee was commander of the forces of the Confederate States of America, the union of six separatist states of the South of the United States, during the American Civil War (1861-1865). The Confederate states of the South American sought independence to prevent the abolition of slavery. Even after the final defeat in the conflict, Lee became a symbol of the far-right American movements that still remember him as a hero.
The removal of the statue of Lee was considered as an affront by the right-wing groups, who decided to protest. Several American cities have been paying homage to the Confederate military - which has generated relief, on the one hand, and fury, on the other.
As a precaution, more than a thousand security agents had been deployed, according to Efe, and state governor, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, had asked citizens to stay out of the protest.
On Friday night, hundreds of men and women carried torches, made Nazi greetings and shouted slogans against blacks, immigrants, homosexuals and Jews.
According to the BBC, participants at Friday's protest carried flags and shouted slogans such as "You will not replace us" in reference to immigrants; "White Lives Matter," as opposed to the black movement Black Lives Matter; And "Death to the Antifas", abbreviation of antifascistas, as they are known groups that oppose to neo-Nazi protests.
Black students from the University of Virginia campus and youths posing as antifascists attempted to make a "human wall" to prevent demonstrators from arriving at the final stop on the march, a statue of the third US president, Thomas Jefferson.
Reactions
US President Donald Trump used his official Twitter account to speak out on the confrontation. "We must all be united and condemn everything that represents hate. There is no place for such violence in America.
The first lady of the United States, Melania Trump, also condemned the confrontation on Twitter. "Our country encourages freedom of expression, but we will communicate without hate in our hearts. Nothing good comes from violence, "he said.
Virginia Governor Democrat Terry McAuliffe vehemently condemned the neo-Nazi and racist protesters who were at the protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they clashed with anti-racist groups.
"I have a message for the Nazis and white supremacists, go home and never come back, you are not wanted in this community." They pretend to be patriots, but they are nothing of the sort Patriots are [the former presidents] George Washington and Thomas Jefferson , Which united the country.Lead their hatred and intolerance though, "said McAuliffe, saying that the United States is a" nation of immigrants