Police used truncheons and dogs to drive back a 1,000-strong crowd trying to disrupt a rally on Saturday by the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) in Goettingen, northern Germany.
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correspondent said both police and counter-protesters were injured as the crowd tried to break through a police cordon surrounding several hundred NPD followers.
Sixty counter-protesters were temporarily detained, local police said. No details on injuries were immediately available.
The government has requested that Germany's constitutional court consider an all-out ban on the NPD, which it compares to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party and views as the hub of the country's extreme right.
The NPD gathering went ahead after a court overruled an earlier city hall ban on the event.