Europe's far-right political leaders campaigned in Prague, calling migration and Islam major threats to Europe as they sought to rally support ahead of the European Parliament elections next month.
Matteo Salvini, Italy's hard-line interior minister and leader of the anti-migrant League party, sent a video message.They attended a rally of the Freedom and Direct Democracy party, the Czech member of the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom.
Wilders, meanwhile, called the EU an undemocratic superstate that has been attempting"to erase our nation states.""Islam is a medieval cult that denies freedom to others," he said."Islam and freedom are not compatible."The rally was disrupted by protesters, who were pushed aside by riot police. Police said 10 people were detained but no one was injured.
The Czech populist group is the most anti-migrant, anti-Muslim, anti-EU party in the Czech Republic. It has 22 seats in the country's 200-seat lower house of Parliament.
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