On Sunday, October the 7th, Serbian police charged into an Army building in the northern city of Novi Sad and arrested 56 members of the group Nacionalni stroj (National front), a neo-Nazi group, including their leader Goran Davidovic, nicknamed "The Fuhrer", after they insulted and threw bottles and stones on members of an anti-fascist rally.

A spokesman for the Novi Sad police, said - eleven Slovakian neo-Nazis were also detained as riot and special police intervened to prevent escalation of violence. Eight Bulgarian nationals are also said to have been arrested.
The anti-fascist rally was organized by 15 Non Government Organizations
and Serbian Democratic Parties.

The National front planned rally was scheduled for October 7 to coincide with the birthday of Heinrich Himmler, the SS commander who orchestrated the murder of hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews an Roma (Gypsies) on the territory of then Kingdom of Yugoslavia in World War Two. The police banned it "because it endangered public morals and public safety".

After the ban, another nationalist group Obraz (Face) announced that they will organize a walk of support for the National Front.

Several people were hospitalised with injuries from hurled stones.
Nazis killed hundreds in 1942 in Novi Sad and threw their bodies in Danube river.
Today, neo Nazi groups are on the rise in Serbia, but usually have few members and are mostly marginalised.