ANTI-NAZIS billing themselves as the Flintshire Action Network (FLAN) have been criticised for attacking Tory offices on Holywell's Halkyn Street.

At the weekend Delyn Conservative Association was blitzed with stickers linking party members with extreme right-wing views.

Activists have not identified themselves but say their aim is to highlight the BNP family connections of Tory veteran Edgar Griffin.

Mr Griffin's wife Jean failed to topple Tory leadership contender Iain Duncan Smith from his London Chingford and Wood Green seat as a British National Party candidate in June.

And Mr Griffin's son Nick, who heads the BNP in Wales, infuriated anti-Nazi campaigners by arranging a weekend rally near his Welshpool home earlier this month.

The group says police contained protesters for more than four hours, preventing them from confronting BNP members.

FLAN campaigns to admit asylum-seekers and urges action to protect new arrivals from exploitation by UK employers.

They claim Britain's record on human rights is 'abysmal', with more than 30 asylum-seekers on hunger strike in Cardiff Prison in protest at the way they are being treated.

The Anti-Nazi League says it has no idea who is behind FLAN or why the Holywell offices were targeted. The attack has been condemned by leaders from all major parties.

Tory constituency chairman Dr Martin Parry said members of all UK political party members laid their lives on the line to halt the spread of fascism during the Second World War.

'Concerns about Edgar Griffin are a matter for the Montgomery Conservative Association and I am sure they will deal with this matter in the appropriate way,' he said.

But Nazi concentration camp survivor Irene Brown says Mr Griffin should not have been pressured because of views held by family members.

'The same thing happened under Nazi and Soviet regimes in the 1940s,' she said.

'Innocent people suffered even though they had done nothing wrong.'

Irene, 74, of Broadacre Close in Bagillt, is still awaiting a decision on a compensation claim lodged in the 1960s after spending more than a year in Belsen and Ravensbruck.

At 14 she was snatched from her home in Poland and branded an enemy of the Third Reich.

Labour's Peter Curtis, a former Holywell mayor, said he sympathised with the aims of groups keen to follow the rest of Europe in offering sanctuary to asylum-seekers but condemned the sticker campaign.

'I would just ask people to consider the plight of refugees,' he said.

'This is not a simply a question of turning people away because of their ethnic origins many face death if they return home.'

BNP spokesman Phil Edwards, a former Chester Tory, said: 'Where we differ is that we have the courage to challenge politically correct policies likely to relegate our children to ethnic minority status in their own country,' he said.