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What are the charges for people using swastika symbol in Germany?
by divan 5y ago
What are the charges for people using swastika symbol in Germany?
- j-pb 5y agoBetween 6 months and 3 years of jail. A fine. And being banned from holding an official position.
- LinuxBender 5y agoI remember one case. A tourist from the US jokingly performed a nazi salute to a statue and did 6 months in prison.
- fabian2k 5y agoPlease cite that, there is almost no chance at all that a first-time offender would face prison in Germany in such a case. It's very unlikely a case like you described would end up prosecuted at all.
- LinuxBender 5y agoI started looking for the incident I remembered from about 15 year ago and it turns out there have been many people have been arrested and jailed since then. [1] [1] - https://www.google.com/search?q=us+citizen+jailed+for+nazi+salute https://www.google.com/search?q=us+citizen+jailed+for+nazi+s...
- Dagonfly 5y agoLinking to google search is not a source. On the first google page, I see zero cases of a foreign citizen getting jailed in Germany for this kind of offense. Detained and fined != in prison.