A/72/291 Oreokastro and Lesvos, some parents had refused to accept that their children should attend the same school as the beneficiaries of the legislative provision. 66. The Institute also made reference to xenophobic violence perpetrated by the police, such as the report that five Syrian teenagers had been stopped by police on 27 September 2016 in Central Athens and subsequently beaten and forced to strip naked during their detention at Omonoia police station. Another report indicated that three Roma men had also been beaten by police officers during their arrest and detention at a police station in western Athens in October 2016, and one of them had suffered a heart attack and been hospitalized. 67. The Institute has indicated that it was of the view that the rise in xenophobia in Greece is a result of the unprecedented economic and social cri sis that the country has been facing. C. Legal Information Centre for Human Rights (Estonia) 68. The Legal Information Centre for Human Rights has informed the Special Rapporteur about a case of glorification of Nazism at an annual gathering honouring the veterans of the Estonian legion of the Waffen SS. Although the Centre found the meeting to be less crowded and ostentatious than in previous years, the Centre indicated that Nazi paraphernalia have been displayed and that chaplains of the defence forces of Estonia have laid wreaths at both the memorial for deceased SS soldiers and the memorial for Red Army fighters. According to the Centre, the leader of the conservative party Pro Patria Res Publica Union, Margus Tsahkna, sent a message of greeting to the SS veterans. 69. The Legal Information Centre for Human Rights also indicated that anti-fascist activists from Finland and Latvia had been banned from entering Estonia to participate in a protest against the glorification of SS veterans. The Centre also indicated that Estonian police stopped the car of two Estonian nationals who had planned to denounce the decimation of the Roma community during the Second World War at the annual gathering honouring the veterans of the Estonian legion of the Waffen SS. 70. The Legal Information Centre for Human Rights commented on the funeral of former SS sergeant Harald Nugiseks, who died in 2014 and whose coffin was reported to have been carried at the funeral by soldiers of the Estonian army. The Centre noted that, in 2016, a bust of Mr. Nugiseks had been erected in his former school and that the current school director had claimed that the statue would encourage pupils to be patriotic. D. International Federation for Human Rights — Latvian Human Rights Committee 71. The Latvian Human Rights Committee of the International Federation for Human Rights drew the Special Rapporteur’s attention to the increasing number of events honouring Nazi collaborators, including a march that took place on 16 March 2017 in Riga honouring veterans of the Latvian legion of the Waffen SS, which drew more than 2,000 participants, including me mbers of parliament from the co-ruling National Alliance party. Peaceful counter-protesters of the march, including members of the Latvian Anti-Nazi Committee, were ordered by the Riga city authorities to move away from the march. Five peaceful protesters were arrested by the police at the marches. The proceedings regarding the restrictions imposed by the city of Riga remained pending before the Supreme Court of Latvia, at the time of reporting. The Human Rights Committee also noted that the chair of 17-13411 15/21