. >> our chief political correspondent, melinda crane, has been following these developments for us. tell us about this alliance between hooligans and the extreme right. is there a political background or were these just people looking for a fight? >> it does seem most of the participants in this demonstration were absolutely out looking for a fight. that is certainly true of the potentially violent soccer fans who took part. they in fact tend not to be very political, and as the report mentioned, the fans often like to fight each other. the fans of one football club will fight against those from another. so this is quite unusual to see them all banding together to fight side-by-side, and even more unusual for them to form an alliance with right wing extremist on a scale like this. as you mentioned, more than 4000 people took part. the fact is, both right wing extremists and violent soccer fans have had some image problems in germany of late. clearly, both the by instruments allies thing a widespread fear of islamic fundamentalism in the population at large, they may improve their im