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An anti-immigration movement's members staged a fake ISIS attack in the middle of Prague over the weekend. Panic erupted in the middle of the European capital as the group entered the city's centre equipped with an ISIS flag, camouflage clothing and guns – all while shouting "Allahu Akbar". Police admitted they had approved the planned demonstration in the Czech capital. However, authorities were eventually forced to intervene when the group announced they were about to carry out mock beheadings.



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Prior to the event, the Czech police had inspected the group's fake guns and said the 'demonstration' was acceptable. However, a police spokesman later admitted this was a mistake. They said tourists thought it was a real terrorist attack and fled fearing for their lives. Several foreign tourists were injured in the melee when they mistook the blank gunshots for genuine bullets and panicked.

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The event was to remind people of what is happening everyday several thousand kilometres from here and is now coming even to us, in Central and Western Europe Miroslav Adamec, spokesman for the Islamophobic group

At one point during the demonstration, the group planned a 'fake execution' of prisoners dressed in the orange boiler suits usually worn by captives in ISIS propaganda videos. In their defence, the anti-Islam activists said they were giving an insight into how Europe would feel under "Muslim rule". Miroslav Adamec, a spokesman for the group, said the event was supposed to remind people of "what is happening every day several thousand kilometres from here and is now coming even to us, in Central and Western Europe". The group’s leader Konvicka Martin claimed the exercise was a total success and blamed Muslims for the outrage.

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During his speech, he shouted that his 'Muslim group' would close schools, burn books and stone women. He said: "Until a few Muslims started shouting aggressively and push towards the performers, everything went very peacefully." But politicians in the country labelled the incident an "embarrassment". Police have not yet decided whether to launch a criminal investigation into the incident.

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