Anti-Nazi group demonstrates at Haider debate

ANGRY protesters greeted the controversial former leader of the far right Austrian Freedom Party as he arrived to speak at a university debate in Dublin last night.

Members of the Anti-Nazi League picketed Trinity College’s Graduate Memorial Hall as Jorg Haider spoke at the Philosophical Society debate. Still regarded as the de facto leader, his party advocates stringent anti-immigration policies and helped introduce them in Austria after sensationally grabbing power in a coalition government three years ago.

Mr Haider, a provincial governor, has publicly praised the SS and Hitler’s employment policies, but has argued he should be able to make comments on the Second World War without being labelled a Nazi.