COPENHAGEN (AFP)---The head of the Danish National Socialist
Movement was sentenced Thursday to two months in jail for assaulting a police officer during a demonstration in August, a Danish court announced.

The court in Kolding in southwestern Denmark found Jonni Hansen, 41, guilty of assaulting a police officer who had tried to disperse a neo-Nazi march marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s deputy in the Nazi Party, on August 18.

Hansen admitted attacking the officer, saying in his defence that he had been "strongly provoked" by a police car that hit him from behind as he was asking his supporters to return to their cars amid clashes with left-wing counter-demonstrators.

One of Hansen’s supporters, whose identity was not disclosed, was given a 50-day sentence for trying to hit a police officer with the stick of a Nazi standard in an attempt to help Hansen.

Hansen is also the head of Europe’s only neo-Nazi radio, Radio Oasis, based in Greve south of Copenhagen.

It has since 1996 broadcast shows to 100,000 to 200,000 potential listeners.