Don't mention the walk (Soccer Fans Who Use Nazi Humor at World Cup to be Jailed)

The Sun ^ | February 9, 2006 | NICK PARKER

[RWR8189]

Fawlty powers ... two weeks in jail if fans goose-step like Basil

GERMAN cops will use sweeping powers to collar England fans doing Basil Fawlty-style Hitler impressions at the World Cup. Yobs will be instantly banged up for TWO WEEKS if they goose-step like John Cleese in his most famous Fawlty Towers scene. And hard core louts who give Nazi salutes — like the one jokingly made by Michael Barrymore in Celebrity Big Brother — could be hauled before a judge within 24 hours. If convicted of inciting hatred they will face jail terms of up to THREE YEARS. Wearing joke German helmets or any offensive insignia will also result in a stretch behind bars. The crackdown was revealed by police in Nuremberg, where England will play Trinidad and Tobago in a first-round World Cup match on June 15. The city is particularly sensitive to World War II jibes. Its gleaming World Cup stadium stands in the shadow of the parade ground used for Hitler’s notorious Nazi rallies in the 1930s. Not awight ... salute like Barrymore could end with three YEARS in jail The city was carpet-bombed by the Allies during the war. Cops there say Nazi taunts are NOT funny and will NOT be tolerated. Police chief Gerhard Hauptmannl, a 59-year-old former judge and Mafia crimebuster, said yesterday:   “We will come down hard on people who use insulting behaviour or make trouble. We are very sensitive about our history. England football fans should be aware that the Nazi salute and provocative behaviour like goose-stepping in public will be punished. We will offer the warmest welcome to true football fans. But anyone glorifying extremism here risks arrest. We are prepared to use our police powers to hold fans for up to two weeks without charge if we feel they are a threat to public safety and order. This used to be the city of the Nazi rallies but is now famous as the city of human rights. We do not live in the past.” Around 10,000 England fans will have tickets for the match at the refurbished 44,000-seat Franken Stadium on the outskirts of the rebuilt Bavarian city. But a similar number of Three Lions followers are expected to travel without tickets — including our nation’s notorious hooligan element. The city’s police are beefing up CCTV surveillance with a £1.1million space-age computerised control centre. Jail awaits ... Sun man Nick Parker inspects German cells It has a bank of high-definition flat screen monitors linked to cameras that can zoom in on a single face. Close-up pictures can then be transmitted to snatch squads who will grab ringleaders in seconds. A new cell block has been built at Nuremberg’s police HQ, with space for at least 65 prisoners. Another 230 cells will be available in the area. Even the stadium has its own lock-up block ready for hooligans and drunks. More than 3,000 cops will be on red alert, including a rapid reaction force supported by highly-trained riot teams, helicopters, water cannon and dogs. Uniformed British bobbies will also patrol grounds where England play. Police station jailer Sergeant Horst Schwarz showed The Sun one of 14 purpose-built steel cages installed in the bowels of the nick.

He declared: “English, German or whatever, I don’t care. If they are hooligans, they will not cause problems once they arrive here.”

Police fear rival yobs who follow teams from the old East Germany may travel to confront English louts.

They are also worried racist Brits will attack black Trinidad and Tobago fans.

Mr Hauptmannl said: “We are co-operating with British police to look for any provocative behaviour in the city which might lead to violence.

“Racist abuse of black people by England fans will also be taken very seriously.

“If such behaviour is seen as a threat to order, my officers will have the power to remove offensive fans from the situation.

“They can then be held for up to two weeks without charge or charged under a fast track system and fined or jailed the next day.

“Either way, we have the power to deal with troublemakers and we will not hesitate to use it.”

More than 3,000 England fans are on a banning order list forbidding them to attend matches.

It is possible another 1,100 names will be added before the World Cup tournament kicks off.

But German authorities are ignoring warnings about booze-fuelled aggro.

Bars will serve strong local beer from 1pm to 1am on match days.

[Joe Boucher]

In the movie Eurotrip, a little boy uses a marker to put a hitler type mustache on then goose steps back and forth as his dad speaks to some folks. Funniest scene imaginable.

1st speach, then the internet now how you may or may not walk?
Meanwhile it is permitted to yell to African players that they are monkeys? And be as abusive as possible towards whatever your angst leads.

[Supernatural]

All this from a country which gives murderers short sentences.

[VietVet]

The German authorities cannot seem to distinguish between glorifying Naziism and ridiculing it.

How sad.

And how sad and ironic that they think it is appropriate to use totalitaian methods to supress their totalitarian past.

VietVet

[Fenris6]

"Cops there say Nazi taunts are NOT funny and will NOT be tolerated."

And violators will be thrown into concentration camps.

ooops.

[Fenris6]

"But anyone glorifying extremism here risks arrest."

They're not "glorifying extremism", they are mocking your grandfathers.

[Fenris6]

"It is possible another 1,100 names will be added before the World Cup tournament kicks off."

Or be required to wear black triangles on their lapels.

[Fresh Wind]

But anyone glorifying extremism here risks arrest.

Well, only certain kinds of extremism. Glorifying German anti-Semitism is no good. Glorifying Muslim anti-Semitism is just fine.

[vimto]

Apart from the politics though this is great knockabout journalism from the Sun - the rag that gave us the immortal heading 'GOTTCHA' when the Navy sank the Belgrano destroyer in the Falkland war.

Enjoy.

[Fenris6]

"snatch squads who will grab ringleaders"

LMAO. Okay, fess up - this must be satire, right?

Do the "snatch squads" have lightning bolts as insignia?

[Joe Boucher]

Priorities. They have their priorities over there in Germany.
Goof around like prince Harry of england and go to jail.

[Joe Boucher]

Is that anything like wearing Jewish stars on you coat?

[libertylover]

Oh how very muslim of them.

[Supernatural]

Seems like all governments have their priorities. And they are all mostly ass-backwards from what they should be.

[razorback-bert]

The Ministry of Silly Walks is real!

[Joe Boucher]

Murderers, rapist, robbers, preverts,and what not and this stupid govt is using its cops to arrest folks doing the goose step?
Priorities? And how are you going to feel if you are a tourist and get mugged or raped while all the cops are chasing goose steppers?

[Brian Allen]

<< Is that anything like wearing Jewish stars on your coat? >>

Which of course, in the face of this fascist sh#t shower from the bastard offspring of conquering looting raping Russian savages that comprise Nuremburg's population -- and its political police force -- is what should be worn by every self-respecting British visitor to Nuremberg's silly soccer game. And by every beer-bellied bovver-booted borish British bum.

[DH]

Just a preview of what's to come here in the US. Hate crimes are the chidren of Political Correctness and we are terminally ill from the PC infection.

Don't believe it? Just go out and voice your opinion about anything that crosses the PC line.

[albionvectis]

It's good to see the germans upholding their stereotypically humourless image. They seem to miss the irony that if anyone has the right to take the piss out of the nazis, it's the British and Americans whose grandparents fought and died to free the germans of nazi tyranny, well the ones that didn't want to be nazis anyway. . .