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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole in Berlin

German punks launch ‘invasion’ of holiday island favoured by elite

Some of the punks in the town of Westerland, including one drinking from a bottle of beer, and another wearing an elephant fancy dress outfit
Aktion Sylt said it aimed to make ‘safe retreats for fascist subsidy collectors, tax-evading Nazi heirs and backward world destroyers things of the past!’ Photograph: Fabian Bimmer/Reuters

Punks from across Germany have set up a summer-long protest camp on the North Sea holiday island of Sylt to demonstrate against economic exclusion, environmental degradation and the presence of the far right in one of the country’s most exclusive areas.

For the third consecutive year, the young leftwingers with mohawks, torn T-shirts and facial piercings began descending on Sylt at the weekend, mainly by train, to disrupt the seasonal repose of the elites.

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