“Vicious” racist stickers and posters have been posted around Geelong’s city centre, with an anti-hate campaigner warning of a neo-Nazi group operating in the region.
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“Disgusting” racist stickers and posters have been plastered around Geelong’s CBD over the Easter long weekend, with a leading anti-hate campaigner warning a neo-Nazi group was operating in the region.
The ‘white pride’ material, produced by local supporters of neo-Nazi group Combat-18, had been discovered on street poles along Myers St near the St John of God Geelong Hospital and on signs in the Haymarket Carpark.
The material include one image featuring a Celtic cross and the text ‘white pride world wide’, and another with a fly and the text ‘multiculturalism: spreading disease with the greatest of ease’.
A Geelong resident who discovered two posters on Myers St said the images were “totally disgusting”.
“Race hate has no place in Geelong,” they said.
Anti-Defamation Commission chair Dr Dvir Abramovich warned “The contagion of unbridled hate and evil that has defiled Victoria is reaching an ominous pitch fever”.
“Our brave Diggers who sacrificed their lives to defeat the Third Reich must be turning in their graves as these Hitler worshippers are out in force, and we should be deeply concerned that a violent, neo-Nazi group that has been designated as a terrorist organisation in several countries, is taking its online activities into the real world and is operating in Geelong,” Dr Abramovich said.
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