A man wearing a Nazi-swastika armband has been photographed fruit shopping at a Melbourne market, a move that’s been condemned as “sickening”.
A man wearing a Nazi-swastika armband has been photographed fruit shopping at a Melbourne market.
One of Australia’s leading civil rights organisations has condemned the “sickening” act and called on parliament to ban public displays of Nazism, the hate-filled ideology whose followers murdered six million Jewish people in the Holocaust.
The individual was photographed on Friday afternoon wearing the Nazi symbol at the Moorabbin Wholesale Farmers Fresh market by a horrified shopper, who called police.
Anti-Defamation Commission Chairman Dr Dvir Abramovich said new laws were needed so Victoria Police could respond to “such terrifying episodes” and Australians “should be alarmed by the contagion of white supremacist hate invading our life”.
“Melbourne is not Nazi Germany, and allowing this sickening and brazen display by individuals who support Hitler and the murder of Jews has to stop,” he said.
“Australian Nazis should not be allowed to intimidate anyone, and it is simply unacceptable to think that in Melbourne neo-Nazi thugs have a license to openly brandish this symbol of extermination and evil, knowing full well that Victoria police is powerless to stop them.
Read the article by Sarah Booth in the Herald Sun.