Posted on 08/06/2017 10:31:05 AM PDT by SJackson
Two Chinese tourists were arrested in Berlin for making Hitler salutes outside the German parliament on Saturday.
Criminal proceedings have been started against the middle-aged men for using symbols from a banned organisation.
The pair have been released on bail of €500 (£450; $600) each.
Germany has strict laws on hate speech and symbols linked to Hitler and the Nazis.
The men - aged 36 and 49 - could face a fine or a prison sentence of up to three years, according to police.
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A police spokeswoman told AFP news agency that the men could leave the country during the investigation and that if a fine is handed down, the bail money they had already paid would probably cover it.
The visitors were seen taking pictures of each other with their mobile phones outside the Reichstag building, which houses the German parliament.
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This is nothing. Selfies can get you in all kinds of trouble.
You don’t spit into the wind.
You don’t step on Superman’s Cape.
You don’t mess around with Jim,
And you don’t Selfie Seig Heil in front of the Reichstag!
“A police spokeswoman told AFP news agency that the men could leave the country during the investigation and that if a fine is handed down, the bail money they had already paid would probably cover it.”
Get them out of the country and back to China.
Good.
I’ve never heard of Chinese Nazis.
Germany....
Kicking out Chinese Tourists who do a Hitler Salute
Inviting in Hundreds of thousands of Muslims that believe in the same sort of crap that Hitler did.
Seems about right for GERMANY under Merkel...
They should’ve shouted “Allahu Akhbar” instead, if they felt the need to be controversial, and all would be OK.
I give a Sig Heil to the TV every time I see Hillary. I wouldn’t do well in Germany.
Can you light a match in front of the Reichstag?
Idiots!
They should be arresting the rapefugees. They actually are Nazis.
Uh...that would probably be a NO-NO too! :-)
Yeah. The White Supremacy schtick doesn’t go over to well in China.
It doesn’t mean ANYTHING to them.
It’s probably the ONLY gesture from German history that they know.
These arrests are ridiculous.
It means a souvenir selfie. Yes, the arrest is absurd.
I think these laws are stupid. First off they don’t deter anyone from actually believing in naziism. Second I prefer that I know who the psychopaths are. Nazis and such should be encouraged to identify themselves.
In a way, the arrests are THERAPEUTIC:
They substitute for ACTUAL action against REAL anti-semites, the ones they’re importing by the hundreds of thousands, every year.
Those huge avon rafts they used to go ONE MILE offsore to NGO smuggling vessels:
Did you know that now it’s so bad that they don’t even have OUTBOARD ENGINES..? Yeah. They ROW or are towed that ONE mile, and then they board a mother ship.
The avon rafts are then towed back to shore, to be re-used, presumably many times.
The guy PAYING for it all is a Jew, and aptly he was an SS asset.
If you prosecute the outer appearance of anti-semitism (in Chinese tourists) where there is ZERO actual substance, the next logical step is actively FOSTERING real anti-semitism (in muslim Africans) in spite of the absence of it’s visible, outer form.
I lived in Germany in 1996 and had cable TV which included daily reruns of Hogan’s Heroes...in German. There must be at least one Hitler salute by at least one of the Nazi characters in each episode. A lot has changed over there since 1943 or 1996 for that matter.
But they did the Roman version.
Wonder how many reading this know of the Bellamy Salute. Given when one recites the Pledge of Allegance. Half century old when replaced in 1942. Are these Nazis?
That said, I do understand Germany's concerns. But on occasion, common sense should prevail
Besides, they might have just been lost, looking for the woods
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