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About 200 Gather in Riga to Protest Against Refugee Intake

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About 200 Latvians took to the streets of Riga on Saturday to protest against receiving refugees from the conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

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RIGA (Sputnik) — Local residents holding flags of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were chanting "Europe is for Europeans, the Baltic states are for Baltic people."

The Riga rally against mass migration is part of a wave of civil actions in Europe held on Saturday in more than a dozen EU countries, including Dresden, Bordeaux, Warsaw, Amsterdam and Birmingham.

Latvia is due to take in some 770 people fleeing war and poverty under the EU relocation plan.

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