Party: Police and Afd

party: The delegates needed massive police protection to get into the convention, and protesters injured one police officer Saturday morning while trying to block the hotel, according to Brandon Sun. Authorities had 4,000 police officers on the ground to prevent a violent escalation of anti-populist rallies by an expected 50,000 left-wing protesters. While tensions brewed inside the AfD party convention in the western German city of Cologne, outside the hotel hundreds of left-wing demonstrators tried to block about 600 AfD party members from entering. Speaking before AfD members, nationalist politician Frauke Petry said the party needed to set the course for a spiritual-moral change in Germany and the rest of Europe. In comparison, Joerg Meuthen, a more far-right party leader who is one of Petry's rivals, was cheered strongly when he lashed out at German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government's migration policy. But a majority of the delegates rejected a vote on the party's future path that she had suggested. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.