Swiss police stop far-right Austrian politician speaking at event

Leader of Austria's Identitarian Movement Martin Sellner speaks during a protest against a police raid at his house, outside the Justice Ministry in Vienna, Austria, April 13, 2019. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo

ZURICH (Reuters) - A far-right Austrian politician was stopped by the police from speaking at an event in the Swiss canton of Aargau on Saturday after the organisers didn't comply with a police request for the event to be cancelled.

Martin Sellner, leader of the Identitarian Movement - classified in 2019 by Germany's domestic intelligence service as an extreme right-wing group in a sign of official concern about radicals with anti-Islamic and racist views - had travelled to Tegerfelden to present at the event organized by a Swiss group called "Junge Tat" (Young Deed).