A Lithuanian radical burnt a sham Israel national flag on Sunday in central Taurage, western Lithuania, with a Nazi march being played.

Saulius Ozelis, an official of the Taurage municipality, said this was a protest against the new initiatives in the Baltic states recently launched by the famous "Nazi-hunter" striving to detect Nazi collaborators in World War II.

Ozelis, a member of populist Lithuanian Freedom Union, drove his car round the town and played loud Nazi military marches. His actions were observed by a few dozens of local residents and party activists coming from other places. Ozelis claimed it was a demonstration he had organized for his electorate. The police did not take any actions.

Ozelis claimed he had organized the action in protest against Efraim Zuroff, the head Jerusalem division of Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center.

During a recent visit in Lithuania, Zuroff offered an award of 10,000 US dollars in exchange for information about Nazi war criminals residing in Lithuania. Such awards have been offered to Latvians and Estonians.

In his address to the participants of the demonstration, Ozelis said that Zuroff should not look for Jews' killers in Lithuania for Lithuanians were rescuers but not killers.

Nazi and their collaborators exterminated more than 90 percent of Lithuania?s Jewish community of 220,000 during World War II.