402_16 interference 16. On 20 January 2013 more than one hundred counter-demonstrators came to the site of the LGBTI demonstration, where six participants were present. They unfolded banners with homophobic slogans, called for violence against the participants in the demonstration, threw snowballs and paint balloons at them and tore up the participants’ posters. At around 2 p.m. some of the counter-demonstrators beat the applicants. About forty police officers were present at the site but did not intervene. All the participants in the LGBTI demonstration had to stop the demonstration and leave.